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Acrylic painting: Man’s best friend

Nkolika — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:08:45 +0000

2.5″ x 3.5″

This is another painting of a strange dog that came up to me and felt so safe and relaxed beside me as I stood at a bus stop. I see a lot of beauty in these creatures and I sometimes wish all human beings can be like dogs. Dale Carnegie, in his book: How to win friends and influence people; used a dog to describe how we ought to be in other to win people over. And I couldn’t agree with him more.

I love it when they wag their tails in joy and anticipation. And no matter what you do they will always come running to you anytime you get home…………….always happy to see you. Come to think of it: why can’t we all strive to be like that? Wouldn’t the world be a much better place to live in?

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Wildlife paintings

Nkolika — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:07:14 +0000

Wildlife paintings

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent van Gogh

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Acrylic ACEO painting of a dog

Nkolika — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:12:26 +0000

2.5″ x 3.5″

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One day several months ago while on my way back from a town where I went with my husband (he had to go and cover a clinic there), I instantly made friends with a nice looking dog. As I stood at the bus stand he came up very close to me and stood. Stretching from time to time. What struck me was he felt so comfortable and at ease just standing beside me. Of course with my camera close by I took some shots and recently painted him.

Animals always enact a feeling always close to supernatural in me anytime I come close to them. They’re such wonderful creatures and I enjoy painting and drawing them.

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Acrylic on paper painting of Giraffes

Nkolika — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:10:53 +0000

Giraffe Silhouettes

20cm x 28cm

For some time now I’ve been having a lot of fun and deriving a lot of joy from painting wildlife. It definitely is influenced by where I have found myself………………….Botswana. Botswana hasn’t been good to me in a lot of ways, but I have simply chosen to see the good sides of the place. I keep saying I’m way too young to burden myself with thoughts that will not in anyway make me a better person or make me happy. The bottom line’s that I am too young to send myself to an early grave. Needless to say it is always very important to try and see the beautiful side of any where you find yourself.

Coming here opened a totally new chapter in my life. A chapter I was not in anyway ready for (can we ever be completely ready for what life throws at us?). But like a popular saying in my culture that says “a na awachi uwa ogodo”…………which means adorning life with beautiful ornaments no matter the circumstances, I decided a long time ago to keep my shoulders straight and walk with my head high at all times. Yeah, like the giraffes in the painting above. If I could get my neck to be that long I would definitely be making a statement to the world around me that I have simply chosen not to be deterred.

What is it that you’re going through now? Have things happened that have made your shoulders slouch and made you constantly afraid of looking the world in the eye? Brace up and know you’re not (never alone). Like giraffes who never walk with their heads low, may we all learn to stare down adversities and disappointments.

Everyone reaches a point in their life where they must either change or cease

Brett Whiteley

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Painting of fighting Zebra Stallions

Nkolika — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:08:05 +0000

Fighting Zebra Stallions

Pastel and Charcoal on paper

21mm x 29.25mm (8.25″ x 11.75″)

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I thoroughly enjoyed painting these Zebra stallions fighting for the right to mate with females in the herd in the wildlife rich Chobe National Park in Botswana, Southern Africa. The Chobe National Park is a wonderland of wild life delights, and surprises. It encompasses most of Northern Botswana north of the Okavango.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures

Vincent van Gogh

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Acrylic painting of an Elephant

Nkolika — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:34:29 +0000

Elephant Silhouette

21cm x 28cm

Acrylic on paper

SOLD

This is a painting I did showing an Elephant making his way home as the sun sets in the Okavango delta of Botswana. It is done on paper and framed with a matt mounting board ready to be put on the wall or inserted into a frame.

The Okavango delta is the world’s largest inland delta. The waters of the Okavango Delta are subject to seasonal flooding, which begins about mid-summer in the north and six months later in the south (May/June). The water from the delta is evaporated relatively rapidly by the high temperatures, resulting in a cycle of cresting and dropping water in the south. Islands can disappear completely during the peak flood, then reappear at the end of the season.

The Okavango is home to a prosperity of wildlife and attracts thousands of visitors a year. On the mainland and among the islands in the delta, lions, elephants, hyenas, wild dog, buffalo, hippo and crocodiles congregate with a teeming variety of antelope and other smaller animals – warthog, mongoose, spotted genets, monkeys, bush babies and tree squirrels. The delta also includes over 400 species of birds.

Have you been to the Okavango delta? Be sure to take a trip to this wonderful place whenever you come around here. Or if you can’t why not get a hold of an original painting depicting life in the delta as the one above.

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