User:Mike Taljaard/sandbox

Michael Johannes Taljaard, Oil artist was born 22nd April 1960 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He allways enjoyed art and found himslef in galleries many a time just watching the work of other artists and dreamed about how he will do it. He moved to Cape Town, South Africa in 1986. In 1990 his wife asked him to paint a picture for their boy's room, something colourful. He painted "Pinocchio" with water colours. She said to him that it was lovely and that he should paint more. Working full time, he tried a few mediums and not before long fell in love with the oil paint medium.

In the year 2000, he was retrenched and became a full time artist. He is a self taught artist and studied many books on other well known artists. He enjoys painting landscapes, waterscapes and seascapes. His art is more classified as impressionistic to realistic paintings.

Today he is a known artist and sells his art on the internet. He painted 220 paintings in 2010 and 125 paintiings in 2011