‘Fireflies’ SOLD Oil on canvas 76cmx104cm heading to its new home. Type 1 Diabetic Half Iron Man Experiment. The decision. Holiday lunch craziness? 70.3 Mossel Bay Half Iron Man, throwing out a few curved balls. How to keep my insulin cool over the cycle/run leg when my blood sugars could be a tad crazy? Never mind, the refueling on an endurance multi-event! Terry found a 'smart' case for
Oil paint on the plastic water bottle butterflies not a success. The oil paint too heavy for the salt-bush twigs I’m using to create the abstract mark-making. Taking a bunch more care to determine which part of the plastic water bottle I need to move the reflected light around the painting. Christmas eve dinner, on a perfect summer evening. Terry found the Worlds best Christmas crackers from
Nyathi Series 2 Acrylic on canvas 2,1mx1m The first 32 paintings for the Nyathi Series 2 art work are done, from our trip to Addo Elephant Park. I will do another 8 or so for greater impact. Goukamma to Buffs trial run with Prince. Short. Fierce. Humidity in the Forest section punishing. As were the hills up the sand dunes. Only fell once, with a strip
‘Lotus’ Acrylic and recycled plastic water bottle butterflies on canvas ‘Artistic Merit Award’ at the 2021 Luxembourg Art Prize. The painting has also been selected for the 2022 Artbox.Project.World.2.0 exhibition to be held at the Urbanside Gallery in Switzerland next year. Multiple insulin jabs keeping my blood sugars into some, sort-of, ‘green’ range. Not, quite on-top of the food-carbs, or the exercising trashing of blood-sugars. Ride over
'Mongoose' Acrylic on canvas 20cmx20cm The paintings in the Nyathi Series progressing. Each small work, it's own character. I'm now 'chipped', a continuous blood sugar monitor with a new insulin treatment regime to bash me back into the green zone. Added risk of hypoglycemia (particularly on long rides) so an emergency glucose pack, and baby-steps in the introduction of the additional insulin. Quite a job keeping