African beauties in Nairobi

 Finally finished these two black beauties. They had been standing around the house for weeks, their dark African shiners looking at me accusingly me every morning upon opening my eyes.  

Based on a lady I met in Nairobi, in the bar of my hotel, drinking Tusker beer and looking at all these dark skinned local beauties trying hard to confince us the European nutters that our Kenian Shilling was better spent on them than on endless amounts of Tusker beer. 

Glad I made all these quick sketches in my moleskine all these years ago so that I can now paint them on the wooden boards I found in the Amsterdam street a few weeks ago...

Delayed inspiration sources you know