A little girl

Alla painting of my niece. 16x16cm. Oil on canvas.

My sisters girls are my favorite subjects over the years.

This one took me 2,5h hours in total (exclusive of breaks)

Commission works welcome

Time lapse videos are available on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/gXoB9BMmFyY

Portrait artist in Cape Town - whats new

Hi!

Wow, it has been quite a bit of time since my last entry in this blog. I have since taken permanent employment position that implies 8 hours working days and leaves much less "painting time" than I would like to have and what I was used to. My bank account however feels a bit better :P


We also have moved to Milnerton as we bought a property here- loads of work!


I do still paint though:)

kids portraits, Cape Town

1st give away portrait painting

Heiya!!!

Here we go! the first give away portrait is done. I'm so excited and eager to see what the reaction of the receiver will be... I really hope she likes it. I titled this painting "In moms arms":)

oil portrait, A3

The portrait will be a surprise gift from an amazing friend to the receiver. I have never met or spoken to the people in this portrait... I hope that this post is not going to spoil the surprise... well, what are the chances that someone that knows the person in the picture accidentally stumbles upon my blog? In case it actually happens, please let me know:)))
 
 Read more about give-away project: http://ritmart.blogspot.com/2014/03/painting-give-away.html

To order a portrait, please visit www.portraitartist.com for more info:)

Baby girl in oil

The local crafts shop had a sale, so I bought some great oil paint and had to try it out!! I wanted to do some for fun and experience. So I checked the photos on my computer and came up with a very cute baby girl from an extended family. Here she is!:)

Baby girl.
Oil on canvas, 30x40cm

Hope You like it!:)

Exhibition in news

Hey, this is so cool!!!

My exhibition in Riga today is featured on Latvia's biggest news platform www.delfi.lv.

Here is the link.
http://www.delfi.lv/aculiecinieks/news/riga/vina-dzivo-afrika-un-nu-atrada-savus-darbus-dzimtaja-latvija.d?id=43737360

Apologies to those who don't read Latvian.

Replica in oil

Have You tried doing a replca of a famous painting?

I decided to try: this is how far I got!

Raphael's famous Cherubs

My attempt (R Grizane)

Original

New works

Here are my latest paintings. After coming back to Cape Town I felt so inspired and painted a few painting in a few days! Or maybe I should give credit to my husbands bike trip through Africa (http://1man1bike1adventure.blogspot.com/), because I was so worried about him, that I could not sleep at night and got into painting? :D

An African dream

Baby - palette knife

One can call it a self-portrait

Preparing for an exibit

Dear friends and readers, 

I have finally gotten together enough courage to organize an exibition!:) Interesting fact is that with the decission to exibit the motivation to paint skyrocketed!!! I have been painting like crazy for the last two weeks and been quite impressed with the result, too:)

Is there hope? Oil on canvas, 14x18"

Prof J.Vitols Oil on canvas, 14x18"

Mommy & baby. Oil on canvas, 14x18"

Our minds are interesting mechanisms!!!:)
I must say thank You to the book I read: "Magic of thinking BIG"

Ritma

Black & White

Two more paintings of the same family. This time here are two super-cute cousins:)

Both paintings are 18x24 inch (~45x60cm). Acrylic un canvas. The background I have left unpainted as the white of the canvas is different to white I painted- just liked the feel of it. Also didn't want to over-work the paintings. I hope You like them!:)

R

Paint like You can afford it!

My painting mentor always says I'm too stingy with the paint... So, one day (actually it was night about 11pm) I decided to try it out! I grabbed a piece of cardboard that I keep around for kids when they want to paint. Chose a picture on the computer for a reference - that was a little girl from Knysna (South Africa) Rastafarian community we visited a few weeks ago. 

The aim was to paint with lots of paint and keep it bright:) I am happy with the result. 

Picture is for sale. Size 23x30cm. Please contact me, if You would like to buy it.

R