New Dimensions

In an endeavour to keep the ball rolling with my art and blog, I decided to create this piece, which did not turn out exactly the way I wanted it to because of the wrong paper I used to work on. If I used a more expensive paper to work on, the finished product would have been neater. It just goes to show you that the experts were right. Don't use cheap paper for art. When I started painting with watercolours, I bought a Hahnemühle pad for painting but never actually painted on it. Yesterday, I got fed up with the cheap paper I had used and decided to see what the Hahnemühle paper would do with my paint. To my surprise, I was delighted with the results. Where I had added too much paint and it ran over the lines, I could lift some of the water paint up and everything looked perfect again. That was obviously on a different work of art. I have started a page on Patreon where I am selling my book called Love For Blankets, People, and Lesotho and feature tutorials on how I create my lit...

Last night it was time again. I was relaxing watching the TV and wanted to draw something. I got an image up on my cell phone and just drew this lady whose husband was criticising her about her big bum. Because I struggled to find the marker colours in a hurry, I messed up a bit and had to fix things on my computer. In the end, you can still see most of my original piece of art. More practice would significantly improve my drawing and coloring skills. My aim is not perfection at the moment. No, I just want to have fun, be creative, and unwind whilst doing my art. If what I create looks good enough for me, then I am happy because I am just doing it to relax, and I can see I am getting better all the time. My book is nearly complete, and I believe it will bless readers. I used an ordinary A5 notepad with lines to draw on and the results are quite pleasant.  

  Sometimes we feel like doodling something that we have seen and take a chance at drawing it as quickly as possible in ink. When we succeed in getting close to what we want on paper, we add some shadows or dark areas and colour too. Here I decided to add some text to the sketch because of all the white space around the image. This was purely a practise session to see what sort of result I could achieve. Sometimes we see something brilliant by another skilled artist, and we see if we can create something similar. It is not to copy their work but to use it as inspiration. My work does not come close to the original piece. As I said, it is just for practise. The more we practise, the more we enjoy trying to improve our skills. That is the pursuit - even if it takes a very long time. Even when our sketch does not look that good. To us it is art. Today is 12 May 2025. I am about to publish my book. Keep visiting this blog and you will be able to get more information about my book and h...

A screenshot of visitor countries to my blog. There are more countries. Today is 12 May 2025. I am about to publish my book. Keep visiting this blog and you will be able to get more information about my book and how you can read it. Thanks. This is an unusual way of telling the story, but I am going to fly by the seat of my pants by just jumping in without a structure or an outline and just go with the flow for a start anyway.  When I was young, I witnessed some extremely traumatic things which I can’t share here because, if I shared them, they would put some people in a bad light and certain things are best kept unsaid. Thankfully, I am still able to do that! Many people blame their past or upbringing or circumstances or parents for the way they turned out. They are just good at excuses. When things happen to us, we still have the power to respond in the way that we choose instead of reacting negatively. As I said, what happened was traumatic. I thought that my father loved my bro...

 The book that I have been writing has suffered a few setbacks but that does not mean that I gave up. I started this project more than three years ago and have been determined to continue with it until it is published. The last hurdle was that I was told that the company I worked for was sold and that I should rather rethink the contents and name of the book because there might be complaints about them from the new owner. So, I obviously was not going to test that issue. I started changing things again for the third time because I wanted to finish my book. It sounds easier said than done but lots of determination and thinking enabled me to get to a good place with the idea of the book and the title which freed me from trying to stick to one topic. I am considering making the font on the cover bolder, but I think the picture is not too bad.  Any journey usually involves taking a suitcase of sorts along to carry your luggage in. That is the reason for the suitcase on the cover. ...

  I went into my blog stats to see where my visitors were coming from – in the last week anyway. It was a fantastic surprise to learn that most of the visitors this past week came from an awesome country called Brazil. I googled the Amazon jungle, and it confirmed what I suspected.   Almost sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest lies in Brazil. When I was very young, I watched a movie that was filmed in the Amazon and always loved the place. It is a fascinating place and also the largest tropical forest in the world. I once read that the storms in the Sahara lift up tons of dust which get blown by the circulating air currents and a lot of them land in the Amazon. I googled this and I got my confirmation: “Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plant proteins and growth, which the Amazon rain forest depends on in order to flourish.” (Link: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/calipso/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazons-plants/ ). It is so good to know that an...

  It has been a while since I last wrote an article. I have been quite busy with a number of things, especially the changes needed for my book. Just when I was trying to put it online three things happened in quick succession to derail the whole project. Today is 12 May 2025. I am about to publish my book. Keep visiting this blog and you will be able to get more information about my book and how you can read it. Thanks. The app that I was using to display the book online gave me two problems. First, it would not allow me to upload my changes anymore. Second, it did not function properly when the shopping cart also did not work. When I contacted them for explanations, they just gave me excuses. They did not provide me with any solutions. Just after that, I was told that the Frasers brand was sold a number of years ago and that it would be advisable to rather not write about that company. After all the effort I had put into the book glorifying Frasers and the people that worked there...