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Richard Parker & co

Update: Dear Rae is running a competition on their facebook page until the 11th of October where you can win one of these beauties

Richard Parker Dear Rae ring

What are the nicest things to draw? Animals, without a doubt. This collaboration with Dear Rae Jewellery made me super happy. Karin designed these charming animal rings inspired by The Life of Pi and asked me to dream up a matching series of limited prints of Richard Parker, a bird and a fish. What animal are you? I thought I might be a tiger, turns out I’m a fish. Follow this link to shop.

I hand-tinted each print with gold ink: the nose on RP, flying-fins on the fish and wings on the goose.

(the first twenty purchases of these rings in either gold or silver come with one of my limited prints)

I have a little shop

And it is open! http://katrincoetzer.bigcartel.com
If you're interested in buying a print, I hope you find something you like. I've added a handful of things so if you'd like a custom print you're welcome to contact me. Most of all I'm excited about the paper my work is printed on. Nice and heavy 310gsm Hahnemühle, 100% cotton.

Lion Around

Ah the title is cheesy I know but I couldn't have it any other way. This painting was my very girly take on this story.

(take a look at the drama of Rubens, Brueghel, Tanner)

In related news, we've moved to our new sunny home which is officially 'pet-friendly'. Time to get a feline :)

Blue Egyptian Hippo

Almost exactly as I found him in National Geographic of March '77. More like him, here.

Quink

Quink is a drawing medium to love! It makes a rich black,

washes grey-blue when watered down and bleeds a very faint orange at the edges. Above is a drawing I did of a Rasmussen shirt. Sadly not of my own invention, but a fun exercise for quink anyhow.

And here is a kitty.

one evening in Ravenna

There are magnificent things to see in Ravenna; photographs are pointless in conveying the scale and intricacy in the craft you may find there. I can only share tiny things I saw next to things that sustain open-mouthed staring for several minutes.

Ravenna has grand mosaics in the true sense of grand but at some point I stopped looking. I saw bamboo flapping against the top of a high wall. Of course I found a gap to spy through and was rewarded with a daffodil garden and six white peacocks just before it got too dark to see.

We only just made our train back and then decided to take the next one anyway and spend an hour exploring the joy that is a supermarket in a foreign place.

Visit Ravenna, the city bikes are free and the mosaics are heavy on gold (and old).

(I found sugar-paper confetti on the pavement outside the train station)

Skrikkel

Hi, hello cause it's the 29th of Feb and a good day to share the very exciting news that my name is on this list (look for the South Africans)! More on that soon. In the meantime here's a cheeky llama and a tiny collage I made called Tiger Rabbits.

PS Look how beautiful Dan Pearson's work is. Landscape designers (and paediatricians) give me serious career envy. Hearing him talk about his collaborative Tokachi Millennium Forest project at the Design Indaba this morning was extra special. x

Joy

I hardly know how to describe the immense joy, surprise and gratitude that was felt discovering these delightful creatures on our beach Christmas tree.

1 tree planted for every artwork sold

A mixed media group show at Salon 91 contemporary in association with Greenpop.
It looks like work is already flying off the walls but the show will be up until the 14th of January. Amble up Kloof street if you're in Cape Town over the holidays and remember to check out Steven Miedema's beautiful vertical garden in the gallery window.

Oh and Greenpop will make sure a tree is planted for every artwork sold. Grand!