This is special moment that inspired us to get out memory put on canvas!
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
safarioncanvas.com is Launched
Today I have launched the website and blog for safarioncanvas.com The website offers people a chance to get a special painting of their safari experience brought to life on canvas by local african artists. This post will explain the new business and how it all started!
In september 2012 my wife and I went to Kenya for our honeymoon to experience our first safari. We stayed at the ol seki mara camp and had the most amazing time there. Everyday for four days our two fantastic guides Patrick and Rafel would show us something new, something amazing and always something to remember. We saw a leopard hide from a male lion up a tree! We saw three cheetahs hiding in a bush, male lions, hippos and then we saw something really amazing...
For two hours we watched patiently as a lone lioness stalked a herd of wildebeest. It was the middle of a hot september day with blue skies with wisps of white cloud. Our guides were not hopeful of seeing any action from the lioness due to the heat and we debated moving on to see something else. However just before we made a move we saw movement and YES the lioness had bounded into action giving chase to one of the wildebeest (Not a young one either!). Only to her surprise, and ours, the wildebeest turned around and charged back at the lion! She was shocked and had to dodge the large sharp horns quickly. After a five minute face off with charging, dodging and what one could almost describe as waltzing around each other. The wildebeest soon tired and met its demise as the lioness grabbed either side of the beast then twisted and contorted successfully pinning the wildebeest to the floor not before her large mouth and jaw wrapped and clamped round her preys neck.
It was a sight not seen by our two masai warrior guides who were equally as shocked, amazed and excited as us.
This scene we had witnessed just had to be put on canvass! Alas it was and a man in zanzibar named Yusco painted a 60in x 25in landscape of our extraordinary safari experience. He even put us and our guides in there! This has of course prompted me to start this website so others can have their magic safari moments captured on canvas!
So here it is and also some photos of that special day:
In september 2012 my wife and I went to Kenya for our honeymoon to experience our first safari. We stayed at the ol seki mara camp and had the most amazing time there. Everyday for four days our two fantastic guides Patrick and Rafel would show us something new, something amazing and always something to remember. We saw a leopard hide from a male lion up a tree! We saw three cheetahs hiding in a bush, male lions, hippos and then we saw something really amazing...
For two hours we watched patiently as a lone lioness stalked a herd of wildebeest. It was the middle of a hot september day with blue skies with wisps of white cloud. Our guides were not hopeful of seeing any action from the lioness due to the heat and we debated moving on to see something else. However just before we made a move we saw movement and YES the lioness had bounded into action giving chase to one of the wildebeest (Not a young one either!). Only to her surprise, and ours, the wildebeest turned around and charged back at the lion! She was shocked and had to dodge the large sharp horns quickly. After a five minute face off with charging, dodging and what one could almost describe as waltzing around each other. The wildebeest soon tired and met its demise as the lioness grabbed either side of the beast then twisted and contorted successfully pinning the wildebeest to the floor not before her large mouth and jaw wrapped and clamped round her preys neck.
It was a sight not seen by our two masai warrior guides who were equally as shocked, amazed and excited as us.
This scene we had witnessed just had to be put on canvass! Alas it was and a man in zanzibar named Yusco painted a 60in x 25in landscape of our extraordinary safari experience. He even put us and our guides in there! This has of course prompted me to start this website so others can have their magic safari moments captured on canvas!
So here it is and also some photos of that special day:
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