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African Woman
Honor the empowering ethnic culture of Africa with this beautiful painting. Full of colorful contrast, this painting will inspire you to explore and learn more about Africa-its history, land, and people!
Canvas Size: 16″ x 20″
Time to paint: 2 hours
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African Woman – Printed Paint Kit
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Part Number: SADPK351
All the help you need to transform your paint and canvas into a work of art. Includes the following:
- Complete Design Instructions
- Reusable Pattern
- Transfer Paper
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African Woman – How To Instructions
*Instructions do not include Tracer Pattern
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Part Number: SAPPI351-W
Canvas Art Painting Instructions
What IS Included:
- Step by step directions that are easy to follow
- Instructions tell you what colors, brushes and techniques to use to bring this painting to life!
- Includes a handy supply list to gather before you start
- Includes Helpful Tips & Techniques Guide
What’s NOT Included:
- THESE INSTRUCTIONS DO NOT COME WITH A TRACEABLE PATTERN
- The traceable pattern must be purchased separately
- For some designs, the traceable pattern has been discontinued and will not be back in stock for the time being
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My First African Inspired Painting
Have you ever been to Africa? Africa is the second largest continent in the world and home to the largest and hottest desert, the Sahara desert! Something funny about that fact is that my very first African painting is my Sahara inspired piece which I created after my first trip to Africa.
Going to Africa was always a huge dream of mine. When I was 19, my friend and I actually planned to spend 3 months on the continent, in Ghana. While that didn’t happen, five years after setting that goal, I was finally able to go to Africa. Thus far, I’ve been to Ghana and Togo and have plans to visit Benin, South Africa, and Zambia in the very near future. With each visit my aspirations to create African Art continues to grow and grow to the point where I physically can not keep the ideas inside anymore. But first, let’s talk about what truly inspired my very first African Inspired Painting.
I was inspired to create this piece because I wanted to match the decor of my new home which was already fully furnished and decorated by my husband who is from West Africa. However, as the painting developed I realized that not only was I adding to the decor of my home but I also was absorbing and incorporating my husband’s culture and my experiences from my trip to Africa into this work. Within this work I found literal pieces of me and my experiences, and it would stand as a landmark recalling that beautiful experience. I must say I’m still proud of it down to this day.
While COVID-19 has canceled a lot of our planned trips back “home,” to “The Motherland” I can still use my many beautiful memories to visit mentally, and through my art I can bring all the things I love about the continent to life and to others. The colors, the people, the culture, the beautiful elements of nature, the clothing and so much more. This piece is the first and oldest piece in my African inspired art collection and I look forward to guiding you through the evolution of these pieces inspired by such a beautiful part of the earth.
December 6th I will be showcasing all of my pieces in this African Inspired Collection during The Motherland Exhibit . I can not wait for you to experience Africa through my eyes – through my art. Make sure you get on my VIP list to get special, behind-the-scenes insights and free entry to the event.
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My African-style safari experience in exotic Norfolk
The Watatunga Wildlife Reserve promises a world-beating safari on the east coast of England – does it deliver?
By Sophie Dickinson 7 November 2023 • 5:00pm
“I’m going on a safari,” I told some friends, their eyes lighting up. I’d need sturdy boots, a good camera, and my wits. I would also need a raincoat and a replacement bus ticket, because this was Norfolk I was going to, not Nairobi.
It turns out that almost anything can be a safari these days. Scoping out the Big Five in the Serengeti? That’s definitely a safari. But so is, apparently, looking at a Great Bustard through a wire fence in East Anglia. Maybe watching the fox digging in my bins is a safari, too?
In Watlington, the safari is found at Watatunga. The park is the brainchild of Ed Pope and Anna Hamilton, wildlife-obsessed landowners. Along with some estate-management pals, they have opened a reserve, complete with an odd menagerie of, erm, mostly deer and cattle.
It’s a strange place. Until recently, the land here was used for gravel extraction, so one enters by driving past machinery and piles of chalky debris. It feels rather inauspicious. Guests are then shuttled into a sort-of visitor centre. There’s scope to develop it: one would like something of an introduction to the park, and its aims, and to work out why, exactly, one is about to embark on a safari there, in the rain.
Instead, we found ourselves rattling around on a golf buggy, while a man very excitedly, and very relentlessly, told us about deer sperm. One of the managers of the park, Julian Stoyel has brought groups of chital, and sambar, and Pére David, and blesbok, and bongo, and Cape Eland, and Kafue Flats Lechwe to Watatunga.
These are all types of deer (or ungulate, to be precise). Julian loves deer. The deer, sometimes, run in the way of the cart, or are glimpsed through a bush. Sometimes they stand and chew on branches, other times they sit down. Mostly, they scurry into the woodland, away from us.
