Hugo de Villiers - "Wet Cape Town Traffic #17"

Wet Cape Town Traffic #17
Oil on Canvas, US$ 368

Wet Cape Town Traffic #17

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Details

Oil on Canvas
Oils on canvas

W: 295mm x H: 425mm x D: 40mm
W: 12" x H: 17" x D: 2"

Approx. Weight: 2kg

This work is unframed

Price

US$ 368

Scale

Reference

WCTT17

About "Wet Cape Town Traffic #17"

On my way to work in the winter mornings synthetic lights reflect bright red, amber, green and a multitude of cold and warm contrasting reflections. I, or my shotgun pilot teenage son, take random photographs through the windshield. As can be expected, only about 1 in a 100 can be edited and prove suitable as an oil painting. I work with a limited predetermined palette before I start a series of 24 works*.
The first step for me is to start with a large brush and work expressively and quickly. I then move on to smaller brushes, working slowly and making careful calculated brush marks. Challenging to me is taking care not to over-painta work. It is very easy to kill the freshness of a work by doing too much. The question and the answer is in this instance is the same thing knowing when to stop!
*[There is specific personal symbolism to this: My birth date making me a Scorpio 8th Zodiac water sign. Coincidentally (and in this instance fittingly) element 24 is Chromium (Cr), a metallic element that can take on a high polish.]

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About Hugo

Wet Cape Town winter mornings and nights - synthetic lights reflecting bright red, amber, green and a multitude of cold and warm contrasting colours.
I also do Pet Portrait commissions (ink) and I dabble in ceramics.

Price Range

US$ 57-1,380

Exhibitions

Various group exhibitions and three solo exhibitions. Last solo in 2020 at Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville.

Education

BA Fine Art IV [Stellenbosch University]; HDE [UNISA]

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