Victoria Olson Art – Watercolor, Egg Tempera & Oil

Open Air Painting in the Retiro Park, Madrid Spain December 2016

It was a nice sunny day in early December, just as autumn was leaving and winter was coming in. So I was painting at the Retiro Park and someone stopped to see the painting.  Suddenly we discovered that we had met in San Francisco around 20 years ago. The light started to change quickly, so…

It was a nice sunny day in early December, just as autumn was leaving and winter was coming in.

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Open air painting in the Retiro Park in December of 2016

So I was painting at the Retiro Park and someone stopped to see the painting.  Suddenly we discovered that we had met in San Francisco around 20 years ago.

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I hadn’t seen Maria Jesus for a long time. We had lost contact long ago and we ran into each other at the park; small world as they repeatedly say.
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The light started changing here.

The light started to change quickly, so I hurried up and finished.

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The Retiro Park in Autumn 2016

This is how it turned out.

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