This past July (2018) Annyth and I spent a week at Zulu Nyala, a private game reserve near Hluhluwe Kwazulu Natal. We were lucky; we managed to see all five of Africa’s big five game animals: lion, leopard, rhinoceros (black and white), elephant, and the African buffalo. We saw plenty of others as well – up close! Beforehand, we spent a week and a half first in Cape Town and then in Johannesburg, where we toured with an old friend, Ruth, whom we hadn’t seen for 25 years.
Annyth, Ruth, and I met in 1989 in Washington, DC at American University, where the three of us were graduate students in anthropology. Ruth is from Johannesburg and still lives in Johannesburg. Learn more about Ruth here. With the exception of a few emails and maybe a Skype call several years ago, we had no contact with Ruth, but we somehow always regarded her as a dear friend. So it wasn’t a surprise that, after a quarter of a century, our time with Ruth was spectacularly awesome. We got to meet her partner, Toni; her colleague, Meryl; her brother, Jonathan and his family; others as well; plus, we got to see Cape Town and Johannesburg through Ruth’s eyes to a large extent. It turns out that our friendship had quietly grown over the years, and now because of our reunion, it’ll continue to grow for years to come.
Here’s the image I sent Ruth a week or so before Annyth and I showed up in South Africa: {Please click on all images to enlarge.}
They didn’t really put this sign up…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
Getting there by air…(practice/play time with my iPad Pro and mainly the Sketch Club drawing/painting ap:
On the runway…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
Still waiting…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
Some guy in Atlanta also going on our 13 hour flight…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
Started wondering…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
Cape Town, Robben Island:
Rainbow Ruth in Muizenberg…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on image to enlarge)
South African penguins: iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama (click on the rest of these images to enlarge, ok?)
Our guide at Robben Island Museum, a former political prisoner himself…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Short hop to Richards Bay from Johannesburg:
Short Hop from Joburg to Richards Bay
Zulu Nyala:
Giraffes…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Impala…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Zebra…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
The noble warthog…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Hippo…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Elephant…(She co-stared in the video below) iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
You just have to see this:
ok, back to my iPad drawing:
Rhino (white)…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Lion…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Our tent…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, Procreate, and iColorama
Our excellent guide, Chris (senior)…iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, and iColorama
Thanks for visiting!! Comment below, if you’re so inclined.
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This is wonderful! I love the lioness!
Amazed by the elephants.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Lois
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Thanks so much for your kind words and for visiting, Lois.
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Hi Paul, looks like you had a wonderful time there! And such terrific artwork, on that trusty iPad Pro. I’m really enjoying my iPad Pro (10.5).
If those elephants were just “grumpy”, wouldn’t like to see them really mad! Thanks for sharing all of this. ~ Janette 🙂
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Thanks for for visiting and especially the kind words. About those grumpy elephants, we were more than a little taken aback by them at the time; but, fortunately, our guide knew what they were up to and calmly took the right steps. Turned out it was a “fake charge!” Still, our hearts were pounding for sure. Thanks again, Paul
PS – I got a notice that Art Set, or some version of it, I’m not quite sure, had an big update. So I went ahead and purchased it. Now I have two Art Set apps. The new one has quite a few bells and whistles. Who knows? Maybe they’re keeping the old version intact for folks who like it the way it’s always been….unlike what Paper 53 did. I’m playing around with it nonetheless.
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Thanks so much Paul, for pointing out the new happenings in Art Set… I downloaded Art Set 4, and got the in app purchases – plenty of new tools and media in there. I’m enjoying having a good look around, quite exciting! So far I really like it. Though I don’t think the charcoal, and blending tools are as good as in the Pro version; glad they’ve kept it in use. Thanks again. ~ Janette 🙂
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