Fine Art from the Karoo

Painting Lessons – Graaff-Reinet

Painting Lessons – Graaff-Reinet

Learn landscape painting in the beautiful Karoo. I offer private oil painting lessons for individuals or groups in Adendorp and Graaff-Reinet. What I teach: Traditional representational landscape and still life oil painting. What you’ll learn in my lessons: The...
Greetings from Graaff Reinet!

Greetings from Graaff Reinet!

Hello there from a sunny and warm Graaff Reinet. It couldn’t be more different here today than the day we packed up and the morning we left from Stanford. We packed a 4-metre long trailer with pretty much everything we own while it hailed and rained on the Sunday. The...
Inspiration & Plein Air Painting

Inspiration & Plein Air Painting

How I find inspiration, and on working en plein air. I live in a BIG dramatic landscape that includes the Kleinrivier (Little River), Kleinriviersberg (Little River Mountain) and Akkedisberg (Lizard Mountain), abundant Fynbos flora, the leafy historic village of...
Across the River

Across the River

This is the whole process of creating this oil original painting, from plein air pencil sketch to final studio painting. My inspiration: I was surprised by this painting. I wasn’t expecting much when I drove down to the river on a windy evening in March to find...
Wandelpad #2

Wandelpad #2

© Tracy Algar, Wandelpad 2. Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm. Wandelpad #2 quantity Add to cart Wandelpad #2 is a plein air painting that I painted on the Stanford Wandelpad in spring last year I’d been anticipating this painting outing for a while. I’d scouted...