Merry Christmas!!!

Dear Nelson Mandela and all of us- may we have a blessed Christmas and fulfilling time with our families! 

Christmas Commissions

Christmas is time for giving and spending time with the family- at least it is for me! I have my mom and sister coming from Overseas (Latvia) to visit us. It will be be my moms first visit in South Africa and there is so much to see here!!!

Portrait paintings are very unique gifts for Xmas and they are great for business (if I can call painting portraits a business), but my family is more important for me. So please excuse me for reserving the Christmas time for family rather than painting ;)

I wish all of You the best Xmas ever and great New Year ahead!

Ritma and family.

Painting landscape

It's been a while since the last post and I have been busy, but not painting wise... However I have done a few portraits with landscape at the background. Although landscape does not require a precise representation (as oppose to portrait, where a minimal change can determine if the portrait will actually look like the person portrayed) it still takes a lot of effort and time to paint. The tricky part is to make landscape look 3-dimensional, where the lightest color and darkest color meet at the horizon.

All of these paintings are done with acrylic paint on canvas fabric.  In various sizes. 

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