Save the Elephants & All the Animals

I am so disgusted & devastated by Trump & US lifting the ban to import elephant trophies into the USA! How can this be happening!??!  Save the Elephants & All the beautiful African animals.  Senseless terrible killing!  A painting I did while living in amazing South Africa in honour of all the animals! Please stop the killing #elephantsagainsttrump #SaveTheElephants #humanesocietyinternational #SouthAfrica, #Africa

Beautiful New Women's Scarf at Redbubble

NEW!!! My Colours of Africa painting image Now on beautiful Women's Chiffon Huge Scarfs (57"x57" 144 x 144 cm) at Redbubble for $45.

 Here's a pic of the beautiful scarf with a one of a kind

 design! To get yours visit: http://www.redbubble.com/…/works/12103276-colours-of-africa…

Colours of Africa Video

A Video Slide Show I put together of my painting process of my "Colours of Africa" painting.  You can see more of my work at www.lisalorenzpaintings.com

Colours of Africa Painting Finished!

Hi Everyone, Finished my painting today! "Colours of Africa", 61 x 91 cm, And I am pleased with it. Got that big high when you finish a painting! I think that's why all artists paint.    Thanks for watching my WIP.   Have a great weekend everyone.     Fine Art, paper and canvas prints as well greeting cards, etc. will soon be available in the market.

Colours of Africa, 61 x 76 cm

WIP Safari Painting - Just about Done

Hello Everyone,  Well I am just about finished my African Safari Painting...Tomorrow, I need to just sit back and give it a good look over and put a few little finishing touches here and there and it will be Done! I will post a Pro-Pic tomorrow of the final painting that will be ready for prints,etc.
Thanks for watching my WIP.  You can also see my WIPs on my Lisa Lorenz Paintings Face Book Page:   https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Lorenz-Paintings/101208610902

 

Completed all the Animals in the Painting

Then I worked on the trees, back round & sky, Almost Finished

WIP Safari painting - continued

Hi Everyone, I managed to do lots of more work on my safari painting, since my last posting.   I completed all my animals except for my male lion.  I am very pleased with the results.    Just need to finish the lion and then work on the background (trees, mountains, and sky).  I am really like how the painting is coming together.

WIP Safari Painting - Almost completed

Hi Everyone, I managed to do lots of more work on my safari painting, since my last posting.   Blocked in more colour, added another basket in the bottom foreground, which I felt added a better flow and more balance to the painting.  I completed most of my animals.  Just need to do the monkey and my big cats.  My baskets and pots are finished.  I also need to work on the background (trees, mountains, and sky).  I am really like how the painting is coming together.  Some Pics of my WIP so
far.

 A New basket added to the composition.

 More modeling work done on the baskets, and foreground

Completed most of the animals, things really starting to take shape

My Safari Painting - WIP Continues

Hi Everyone, Blocked in colours over the past week or so. Would have liked to have done more but I was busy with some other projects.  

My progress so far:

WIP African Safari Painting

Hi Everyone, I have been busy with my new painting.  Thought I would share a WIP of my project.

 

First step. My idea put on my paper. Rough sketch

 Charcoal drawing on canvas

  Painting outline in paynes grey of the charcoal drawing

 Close Up

New painting idea, rough sketch

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all had a nice weekend. We have been having so much rain in Joburg.  Well, I have had this idea/image in my head for some time now for my next painting. Finally sat down today and sketched it out. Here is my very loose rough sketch of what I am planning to work on soon. Wishing you all a great day!

 

Our Safari Trip to Pilanesberg Game Reserve

Hi everyone, Okay here are the pics from the safari we took in Pilanesberg Game Reserve this past weekend. The Palace hotel in Sun City is located right near the game reserve. Basically 10 min ride away, so you know there are so many animals nearby. Was such a great experience. We saw all the big 5 except for the Leopards. The Elephants were my favourite along with the Giraffe.

We left for our safari excursion at about 4:30 pm. We all got on these big safari trucks. And riding in the big safari truck thru the African savanna bush and on those red soil roads was really an experience... I just loved it. Seeing the beautiful landscape and being out in the African savanna like that. Our guide was a wonderful, very tall South African man from the area named Philaneous. He was also a great guide and very knowledgeable and funny too. He really loves his job and it showed. Not even about 20 minutes into our ride, we started to see so many animals. First spotting was all around the big watering hole. It was so exciting and then we saw more animals all close by to the path as well. Some even crossed the path right in front of the truck. Everyone was excited. Some were so close to us. One big elephant was coming so close to the truck..my heart was racing.

We also saw Lots of beautiful Rhinos, mostly white rhinos and that was a big highlight as there are not many around to see. They were right there on the path and crossing next to our truck. They are huge and beautiful. They were with their young and it was so wonderful to see them. We also saw tons and tons of Springbok, Impala, Gemsbok, gazelle, Antelelopes, Wildebeest, and also some Buffalo and hippos by the water and then close up some Zebras and giraffes. Then we saw a Lion and Lioness in the deep grass mating. Saw another family of elephants and the baby's. The huge female protecting the heard and we saw them walk to the water and drink and then they headed to the open plains where the lions were; and we saw the big Female of the herd chase the lions away. The male lion ran away and the female too. It was something out of National Geographic . Everyone was so excited to see all of this on the trip. It was a real bonus. Unfortunately, we did not see the leopards as they are very hard to spot and see. The guide told us that on many safari trips they are difficult to see, and they tend to be higher up in the cliffs and mountains. He said that sometimes they will come close to the camps if they smell the grill and fire. They have to have fences along so you see them sometimes at night going along the fences at the camps.

Then the sun was setting and the amazing sunset was spectacular over the African savanna landscape and bush. Many beautiful mountains around the area. And the red soil and long grass and beautiful trees and plains of gold for miles and miles. The landscape is truly majestic and beautiful and with the sun setting, lighting up all the grounds looked like a beautiful orange and gold. Then it got dark and we started heading back and on our way back we could see the hyenas out with their eyes shining in the light from the trucks lighting and then we saw a group of lioness again hunting. There was a springbok in the water and she was stuck there and you could see the 3 female lioness staking it out. Was a real adventure. Your heart is racing and I have to say it is something else to see. The landscape was breath taking and we just loved the safari seeing all the animals in their natural habitat like that. We will definitely do another one and stay at a lodge and have a bush dinner and several safari tours for morning and night rides. It was really an incredible experience. It was also very hot up north in the Pilanesburg area. We did not even need our sweater at night on the ride We had temps of 38 in the day

On the Safari truck and heading off to Pilanesberg Game Reserve

Our Wonderful Guide

 

Saw some baboons on the road, before heading to the reserve, much bigger and more menacing then I imagined.

Beautiful landscape, and we animals by the water right away on our trip

Beautiful White Rhinos crossing the road

Some Wildabeest with their young crossing our path

Beautiful Majestic Girafe and zebras along the way

Baby Impala, so curious they are

Lone Bull Elephant..such a wonderful sight to see

 He came so close to us

Beautiful elephant and babies

All sticking together in the herd, my fav picture I captured on my safari, Inspiring me to a painting of this

Such Beautiful Landscape

Coming back form the watering hole...so cute the little ones

Lion and Lioness in the deep grass

Beautiful Sunsets

 That's it for now..wishing you all a great week ahead and weekend. Hope you enjoy the pics! 

Wonderful trip to the Majestic Palace Hotel in Sun City & A Safari at Pilanesberg

Hi Everyone,

 

My husband and I just got back from a fabulous trip to Sun City.  (North Western province here in South Africa about 2.5 hours away from our home).  We stayed at the beautiful opulent African Hotel, The Palace Hotel of the Lost City.  There are also several other hotels in the area, as well as a casino, valley of the waves water park, entertainment centre, and also family bungalows, etc.   Pilanesberg game reserve is about 10 minutes away so we also did an early evening safari which was amazing. 

 

It was just a marvelous trip. I took so many great photos that I thought I would share some with you.  The hotel is such a splendor in design, décor and architecture that I had to take so many pictures to capture the opulent African décor!  It took my breath away.  Everywhere they had beautiful chairs, light fixtures carpets and tapestries all depicting the African wild life.  The grand court room was just spectacular to see with the beautiful elephant water fountain.  I loved the art deco style and African design.  The high ceilings and their painted mosaics and the beautiful windows really was something majestic to see.  The hotel is so well maintained and just spectacular in beauty along with the stunning grounds.  A designers dream.   This wonderful trip has certainly given me so much inspiration for new paintings.  We really loved our getaway.

 

The Amazing Entrance to the Palace Hotel, such a grandiose hotel

 

 Beautiful grand entrance and cheetah and Gazelle fountain

 

The stunning lobby

 Just loved the painted come!  Gorgeous design and colours

Close up of the beautiful motif

 Everywhere you looked, there was such beautiful décor. Loved the tapestries and the ornate Zebra chairs. 

The Stunning Court Room Hall Restaurant. I just loved this art deco opulent African room, with the majestic windows, elephant fountain and all the work on the cielings.  The stair case and the gorgeous carpet. Such a gorgeous room, it took my breath away

The Gorgeous Elephant Water Fountain is just amazing

 They were serving high tea when we arrived.  They have a beautiful breakfast buffet, high tea in the afternoon and an amazing dinner buffet as well. You just felt like Royalty being in this room.

The beautiful grounds of the hotel..such grandeur. I loved the lily pond

 The beautiful Tusk bar.  Such beautiful décor and all our the colour schemes fit so well.

Beautiful Life Size elephant statue in the court yard

 A view to the front side of the Grand Court Room Patio.  Such opulence

The Beautiful Swimming pool and cabanas.  Love the painted design on the canvas

Amazing views of the area and Sun city from the Tower at the hotel

The pathway from the hotel heading to the rest of the resort

Valley of wave pool in sun city

The beautiful entertainment centre and the lost city bridge that would shake and smoke every hour.  Loved all the elephant statues and the carvings in the rock

 

A beautiful farewell dinner at the Plume Restaurant in the hotel. Such a beautiful restaurant and

wonderful ambiance and lighting

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