Artworks: Drawings and paintings

Ink drawing of spray-paint can and wood-planer, 1966, age 21/22

Pencil drawing of bones, 1966, age 21/22

Watercolour painting of a town in Germany, 1959, age 15

Watercolour painting of Irish scene, 1960, age 16

Watercolour painting of aerial view of Le Mans racetrack, c. 1970

Watercolour painting of Bayreuth, c. 1959/1960, age 15

Watercolour painting of three rivers in Germany, the Inne, the Ilse and the Danube, 1961, age 17

Pencil drawing of Woodridge town house garden, Sandton, 1978

Pencil drawing, lawnmower and watering can, 1966.
Done at Johannesburg College of Art, under lecturer and Henry Moore scholar Spies Venter. I am still in touch with Spies who at age 80 is still active, painting and lecturing history-of-art in a Karoo dorp near George, Western Cape [2016]. One of my colleagues at art college, Rodney Cohen, now living in Canada, found Spies's web-address. Spies was an inspirational lecturer who really helped to upgrade my drawing. 

Pencil sketch of my son, November 1976

Pencil sketch of my daughter, July 2000

Adaptation of a Brockbank cartoon, with my 1961 Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale inserted! c. 1988

Pencil Drawing of The Crucifixion, 1966, age 21.
I researched Roman crucifixions and found that the wrists were nailed rather than the hands, and that only the crossbar was carried by the victim, not the whole 'cross'.

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