The 24″x 30″ works illustrated here were made on site in Botswana. The larger works are based on field sketches but were made in the studio. All works are oil on aluminum panel. The titles are incomplete at this point. Click the thumbnails and click once again to see larger images.
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Posted 31 January 2010
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Also tagged: Africa, African Ecology, African ecosystem, African landscape, African middle class, African wetlands, antelope, Baobab trees, Botswana, Delta Camp, elephants, Field studies, Gaborone, Ilala Palm, Kumakwane, Mike Glier, Mirrored world, Nxai Pan, Plein air, python, Savannah, Suburbs, Tuli Block
The following pencil and gouache studies were made in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.
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Posted 12 September 2009
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Also tagged: African wetlands, African Wildlife Drawing, Botswana, Delta Camp, Field sketches, Field studies, Gouache drawing, Mike Glier, Mirrored world, Nature, Pencil drawing, Plein air, Red lechwe, Travel Art
“If a hippo surfaces nearby” said Matsaudi Noga in a voice reminiscent of a flight attendant reciting safety instructions prior to take-off, “please do not attempt to jump from the boat”. I had just settled into the mokoro, a hand hewn log that serves as transportation in the Okavango Delta, when Matsaudi continued with the [...]
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Posted 02 September 2009
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Also tagged: African buffalo, African Traditional medicine, antelope, Baboons, Black Plover, coucals, Delta Camp, Elephant attack, elephants, Fork-tailed Drongo, Game guide, Giraffe. Donkey, Hippopotamus, interview, Lenamile Baikgodisi, leopard, Mabele, mangosteen, Matsaudi Noga, Mokoro, People of Botswana, python, Red Billed Buffalo Weaver, Rock painting, Safari camps, Safari safety, San, Survival, Traditional African painting, Tsodilo Hills, warthog, wild asparagus plant, Ziziphus Mucronata
The full moon rose over the Okavango Delta as I lay in bed listening to the elephant wade through the water. The sloshing was a fresh sound, just like a person walking through the shallows only louder. And it grew even louder, so I got up to see if the elephant was really headed to [...]
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Posted 28 August 2009
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Also tagged: African Wildlife Drawing, Botswana, Delta Camp Botswana, Elephant drawing, Elephant foraging, Elephant impression, Elephant in the bedroom, elephants, Full moon, gesture drawing, Gouache drawing, Ilala Palm, Movement
The Okavango Delta is formed by a river that has nowhere to go. The water that forms the Delta once flowed to the sea, but a fault in the earth’s crust is raising the floor of the Kalahari, blocking its path. As a result, the frustrated river has lost its snaky shape and has become [...]
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Posted 25 August 2009
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Also tagged: Aerial photograph, Africa, African ecosystem, African Fish Eagles, African landscape, African Wildlife Drawing, Botswana, Crane, Delta Camp Botswana, Ecosystem, elephants, Field sketch, Field studies, Green Pigeons, Hippopotamus, Ilala Palm, Kalahari, Mirrored world, Mokoro landscape, Moremi Game Preserve, national park, Okavango delta adventure, Pencil drawing, Primal landscape, Red lechwe, Saddle-billed stork, Saddle-billed Storks, Savannah, seas of grass, Skull, swamp, Sycamore Fig, sycamore figs, Vervet monkey, visual traditions, wart hog, water lilies, Water lily, Waterbug, Wetlands
“I find it embarrassing that I have not visited most of Botswana’s significant tourist attractions of even seen some of her various landscapes. What I can say is that although much of the land is under ‘threat’ of loosing its natural appearance through rapid development, the government still manages to conserve and sustain the most [...]
