Portrait on a windy day

   

I'm Capetonian, as Capetonian as they come as I was born here and have lived here my whole life, so I should by now know and understand the crazyness of a windy day here. Yet due to a horizontal learning curve I still often find myself out in the wind with loose hair and no hairband on my person. But it did give me the idea for this portrait. Painted with the help of a pot of chai tea, roasted and salted nuts and chocolate.

Self portrait

I haven't painted in ages, I bought paint about a year ago and I've never taken them out of the box, but yesterday I had burst of inspiration and painted a self portrait, it was really fun and it's inspired me to get back into painting.

All printed

On Friday I had the invites printed. It was fun picking out paper and envelopes, it was a bit like the scene in American Pscycho where the guys compare their business cards, I stood for ages looking at what is essentially white paper, looking at the different textures and grammages and shades of white, I completely geecked out. I love art supply stores I can easily spend a lot of time and money in them. Anyway once I have selected the right shade of white paper with a pleasing texture I had them printed and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. And it's always nice to hold a finished product in your hands.