Category: Process

  • Wandelpad #1

    Wandelpad #1

    At the time I started painting this little Stanford landscape, I was walking this path daily. It’s a few month’s later as I post this here, and my Wandelpad walks have slacked off a bit. The past few months have been a time of tumultuous change, something I apparently specialise in! Needless to say, I’ve stomped, skipped and ambled this path hundreds of times as I’ve processed what the past month’s have presented. The Wandelpad has many faces. I love this particular face.

    I finished this painting a few days ago in/on my new stoep-studio. It’s about time. Things are settling down a bit for me, there’s a workshop on the near horizon at last, and I hope to spend many more hours on the Wandelpad this summer, painting the always inspiring Stanford landscape.

    A shining triangle of green peeks through a dark tangle of vegetation as you approach down the path. As you get closer, you see that it is the grass on the other side of a green archway over the path.

    ALGAR Wandelpad #1 2021 

    © Tracy Algar, Wandelpad #1. Oil on stretched canvas, 20 x 20 cm.

     

    To view in person, please visit Journey at 13 Queen Victoria Street, Stanford.

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  • The Dip Stanford

    The Dip Stanford

    The Dip, Stanford - Oil on canvas - 30x30cm
    The Dip, Stanford – Oil on canvas – 30x30cm – ZAR 1,150

    I’ve been thinking about painting the dip for a while, and I think I’ll be painting it again. It’s so very Stanford, one of the entrances to the Wandelpad, and a favourite skating haunt of local kids, young and old.

    I painted this piece in the studio from a photograph I took on a walk.

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    Inspiration in Stanford village: the shadows in ‘The Dip’

    The shadows across Queen Victoria Street always catch my attention as I drive through the dip on my way to the shops, or walk through it on my way down to the river.

    I walked down to the dip to photograph it from both sides, and at various points up and down each side.

    The Dip, Queen Victoria Street, Stanford
    Looking down into the dip from the corner of Queen Victoria and Church Streets.
    The Dip, Queen Victoria Street, Stanford
    A bit further down into the dip, this is from the corner of Queen Vic and Caledon Street.
    The Dip, Queen Victoria Street, Stanford
    The composition I chose, right down at the Protea Road corner.

    Tools + Materials

    Zelcol artist oil paints in ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, acrylamide yellow light, cadmium yellow medium, yellow ochre and titanium white.

    Zellen cold wax medium

    Dale artist’s canvas panel

    Daler + Rowney filbert natural bristle brush size 8
    Dynasty filbert natural bristle brush size 4