Fine Art
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Plein Air Painting at Palacio de Cristal in August 2023
It’s August, and we are having a heat wave here in Madrid. No matter what the…
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La Plaza de los Pintores (The Painter’s Plaza) Madrid, Spain
Come to the Plaza de los Pintores. Here at Plaza Conde de Barajas, you can see…
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La Fuente de Neptuno Paisaje de la Luz (Neptune Fountain Landscape of Light) Madrid, Spain.
I painted this watercolor of Neptune Fountain on-site, in Madrid, in the hot summer heat of…
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Autumn Plein Air Painting in Madrid
The leaves on the trees are a light luminous green color in autumn. This light reaches…
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XVIII Certamen Nacional de Pintura Rápida de El Capricho en Otoño 2022
Capricho park in Madrid is a gorgeous historic park. I signed up for this fast-painting competition…
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La Gran Via from the Rooftop of Callao 2021
This is one of my favorite small watercolors. It is my favorite because I had a…
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Painting the Crystal Palace of Madrid, Plein Air -Landscape of Light – World Heritage Autumn 2021
I started the pencil drawing on the 18th of September 2021. I returned the next day…
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Thank you for Supporting the Arts Boca Raton FL – United States! Monument to Alfonso XII became World Heritage on July 25th 2021
When you purchase a print from me, I can buy more paint, more brushes and it…
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Thank you for supporting the Arts
These are early February branch flowers. They are the first to bloom in Madrid after our…
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Fuente del Àngel Caìdo September 2019
If you come to Madrid, don’t miss out on seeing this impressive fountain. This is the…
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Poppies and Daisies in Pickle Jar 2019
In the spring I like to paint the wild flowers since they are so colorful and…
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La Plaza de Pintores – A Collective Painting Exhibition at the Auditorio Y Sala De Exposiciones Paco De Lucia / La Plaza de Pintores – Una exposición de pintura colectiva en el Auditorio y Sala de Exposiciones de Paco De Lucia
-There are 39 Painters at the Plaza- Inauguration day at Sala Paco de Lucia. -Hay 39…
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Plaza de los Pintores at Conde de Barajas Madrid Spain.
This is the Plaza del Conde de Barajas la Plaza de los Pintores. There are 39…
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Spain – City and Rural Landscape
via Spain – City and Rural Landscape
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Plaza Conde de Barajas, La Plaza de los Pintores in August 2018
Although this Sunday, the 9th, the Art in the Street show is cancelled due to the…
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2º concurso de pintura rápida al aire libre Taller Abierto, en pleno Madrid de los Austrias En la Plaza del Conde de Barajas.
Now this is a rapid painting competition, in Plaza del Conde de Barajas also called Plaza de los…
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A small Watercolor of The Almudena Cathedral Madrid, Spain.
I like to start a watercolor with a light grid to keep my parallel lines parallel. …
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Three Small Line & Wash Watercolors
In the spring, there are plenty of flowers to paint. This is a line & wash. …
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Plein Air Watercolor: Fuente del Faunito Rose Garden 2015
Fuente de Faunito en la Rosaleda Madrid Esta fuente española situada en el parque del Retiro…
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Fuente de los Galápagos en El Parque del Buen Retiro Madrid
Fuente Isabel II, popularly called, Galapagos Fountain was designed by Francisco Javier de Marietegui and sculpted…
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Spanish Wildflowers Watercolor
Spanish Wild flowers Poppies and Wild Flowers May 2015 Watercolor on Arches 300 gsm – Painted…
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California Wild Flowers
California Wild Flowers 2014 The last time I was in California, I got a sack of…
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Plein Air Painting
I love plein air painting because it’s like keeping a memory on paper. I was at…
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La Fuente del Fauno de la Rosaleda in the Parque del Buen Retiro in Madrid, Spain
Fuente del Faunito en la Rosaleda Madrid, Spain La Fuente del Fauno is the name of…
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The Retiro Rose Garden, la Rosalera.
The Dolphin Fountain at the Retiro Park in Madrid. I just started this painting last weekend. …
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La Rosalera del Buen Retiro 2017
Madrid, is where I always wanted to paint, especially in the June light. This fountain below,…
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Canto VII (67-96) Fortune in the fourth circle with the hoarders and the wasters 2017 Illustrating Epic Poetry.
Epic poetry is my favorite read, here in particular is Fortune in Canto VII, passing out…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto VI (13-15) Cerberus 2016 – Oil on canvas –
Canto VI Cerberus 2016 The Divine Comedy (Illustration) Dante awakens in the 3rd circle. Cold dirty…
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Summer June Flowers 2017
After our funny hail storm in June, these little yellow sun flowers bloomed on the terrace…
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Open Air Painting of The Lds Temple in June 2017 Madrid, Spain
This is the largest plein air watercolor I have done so far. It was…
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My Watercolor Exhibition Experience at Arte Studio in Madrid May-June 2017
I realised that I had to focus. First I got a body of watercolors together 2014…
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White Almond Blossoms in Talavera Vase Watercolor March 2017
This spring I was only able to paint one watercolor of the white almond blossoms. They…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto IV Modern Language Version. Written by Jim Belton and Illustrated by Victoria Olson.
The next day, we came to the foot of a noble castle, circled seven times by…
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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…
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Out Door Painting in Bustarviejo (Madrid) with the Agrupacion de Acuarelistas de España
It was a cold grey day, Friday the 3rd of March 2017. The Agrupaciòn de Acuarelistas de España of…
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Figure Painting
Dante’s Inferno Canto IV in process – Mixed Technique: Tempera Under-painting and Resin-Oil Finish. ILLustration in…
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Exposición del Grupo Becerril Acuarelas
Watercolor Exhibition in Madrid Today I went to a watercolor exhibition in Madrid at the Sala…
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Figure Painting
Dante’s Inferno Canto IV in process – Mixed Technique: Tempera Underpainting and Resin-Oil Finish. Illustration in…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto II Modern Language Version. Written by Jim Belton and Illustrated by Victoria Olson.
“I was among those who are suspended in Limbo, when a Lady called me. She was…
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Watercolor Exhibiton in Madrid: Small Format
La Agrupación Española de Acuarelistas de Madrid celebra una exposición colectiva de acuarelas de pequeño formato.…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto I Modern Language Version. Written by Jim Belton and Illustrated by Victoria Olson
“and I lost hope of reaching the hilltop. I was like a man who takes his gains…
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Figurative Mixed Media Painting Process of Canto IV, an Illustration of Limbo inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy
I start with stretcher bars. 73 cm x 100 cm or 28.74 in x 39.37 in…
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Figurative Painting Process – Canto IV -The Divine Comedy.
I’m putting the imagery together and keeping my rough draft in mind. According to the poem.…
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Egg Tempera Figurative Painting Process
Here I’m posting some of the steps of mounting a canvas and starting a tempera painting.…
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Open Air Watercolor on Fosston Minnesota Farmland
In 2012 I was visiting family in Fosston Minnesota. A Summer’s Day in July 2012 Here,…
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Line & Wash of September Roses 2016
I thought that watercolor season was over since we’re already in September, but not yet. There…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto V (121-138) The Lustful
Virgil and Dante enter the Second Circle where the lustful are forever thrown around in dark…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto IV (103-106) Limbo
As Dante and Virgil are walking through the woods in the First Circle, they come upon…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto III (106-108) Unmade Souls 2015
Virgil and Dante start on their journey through the ante-inferno where those who looked the other…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto 2 (55-63)
Beatriz decends from a place that she longs to return to visit Virgil whose soul is…
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Dante’s Inferno Canto I (49-60) Egg Tempera Painting on Canvas
Dante’s Inferno Canto 1 (49-60) Dante finds himself in a dark forest thrust into despair by the…
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Cantalojas open air painting
Just got back from Cantalojas.
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Yellow Melon with Red Bottle Summer 2016
When I saw this melon come into the room, I just knew I had to paint…
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Open Air Watercolor Cercedilla, Spain August 2016
Trying to get away from the heat here in Madrid, we went to Cercedilla. By the…
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Looking through the Terrace Window at El Cerro de los Angeles Vallecas, August 2016
As the sun started going down yesterday, the colors got really vibrant. I also got these…
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Open Air Painting of Neptune Fountain on the Paseo del Prado in Madrid, Spain August 2016
I’ve done two watercolors of this fountain from opposite stand points. This is the first one.…
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Three Still Life Watercolors
Vibrant color and immediacy is what I like the most about the watercolor medium. consistent practice…
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Open Air Watercolor Painting – Paseo del Prado Madrid, August 2016
I had been thinking about painting in the City Center for a while now, but …all…
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Open Air Watercolor – La Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, Spain
Santa Maria la Real de la Almudena is the Catholic Cathedral of Madrid, simply called, La…
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Small Watercolors of Flowers in Vases
I like to paint small watercolors of colorful flowers and transparent glass filled with water. These…
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Watercolor of Fountains in the Retiro Rose Garden in Madrid, Spain
The Buen Retiro in Madrid, Spain is my favorite park. Here are a few open air…
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Open Air Watercolor Painting – Fuente de los Galapagos
I’m catching up on posting. This is an open air watercolor I did in the winter…
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My Favorite Bottles
My Favorite Bottles is the first watercolor I painted of this series with the same name.…
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Pink Blossoms in Talavera Vase March
In March the Cherry Plum and Almond trees are full of Pink and White Blossoms. I…
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My Illustrated Interpretation of Eve’s Dream from John Milton’s Epic Poem Paradise Lost
I’ve been reading Paradise Lost by John Milton and was inspired to paint Eve’s Dream from…
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Open Air Painting in Trillo, Spain
Unbelievable! In Trillo, Spain, there is a waterfall flowing through the middle of town. I went…
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