Hi @berien I'm sure that getting support from governments for artists is a world wide problem, it's just compounded here because of the exchange rate as the value of the Rand is so pathetically low. The

Awesome! It's exactly what dreams feel like...falling into a strange unknown world where anything is possible.

Such incredible craftsmanship. Simply beautiful.

Love this work, there is so much work that goes into creating sand art knowing that it will slowly dry and become just a pile of sand. Simply amazing!

This is beautiful, love the delicate nature of paper art.

I've been on Steemit for about 4 months now and at this stage I don't really know if what I'm posting is good content or not, if I look at it from a reward point, then it's all bad. I know I try really

I took this photograph some years ago at a small game reserve, Mabalingwe, just outside Warmbaths South Africa. We had been driving in the reserve game watching and late afternoon the skies changed

Black Opal Dream

I agree, it was powerful even before I read the artists statement, but really touched me when I understood what she was conveying

@berien it went okay. Let me rather say that the students really enjoyed it and all said that they learnt something new, my feeling is I can improve on it a bit more. The problem is always that there is

@berien Thanks again for your consistent support, I so enjoy reading your views on my posts. It f always feels good to know someone out there is reading and enjoying them.

The studio in which he works does wonderful work at teaching technique as well guidance and a great platform. Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg South Africa is worth visiting to see many talented young

Please, please post some pics of individual works, would love to see the standard of student work over there compared to our youngsters.

@berien Thank you so much, I will check out the site and let you know.

@romanie you are a star, thank you sooooooo much

@ladydiana most of the artists I've posted are people I know personally, others I'm connected to. Many of them know that I'm trying out a new avenue to promote South African art and artists. I'm hoping

I'm afraid I'm unable to understand Spanish, but I think I got the gist of what you're saying. Yes, creating can mean using anything and everything available to the artist, all you need is imagination.

Thank you, correction made.

It doesn't seem to give me an option of not donating. Thanks for all your help, you're a star for being so patient with the techno challenged ;)

One more question from the village idiot, I figured out the resteemit function works, but when I tried to test it on a post from a couple of days ago, it asks for password. The password for my account