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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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Plaza de los Pintores
At Plaza de los Pintores, also known as Plaza Conde de Barajas, you can see original…
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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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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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Plaza Conde de Barajas, Madrid de los Austrias, Spain
Today was especially fun. I was able to get a photo with N in front of…
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Thank you for supporting the Arts Penelope.
It is so fun to see a painting I made in 1986 on your wall. Thank…
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Mediterranean Wildflowers in Red Vintage Bottle
The Mediterranean wildflowers that I painted in this red vintage bottle show up in the spring,…
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Watercolors of Madrid
When: June 5th from 10am to 3pm Where: Plaza del Conde de Barajas, Madrid What: Watercolors…
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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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Painting Palacio de Cristal in Retiro Park of Madrid, Spain
I have a lot of fun painting the Crystal Palace. I paint it often. In July…
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Retiro Park World Heritage
The Crystal Palace here in Retiro Park has been granted status of world heritage in July…
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Spring Blossom Explosion Painting 2021
The Flowers in this painting are almond tree blossoms, Japanese scarlet quince and yellow broom retama…
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El Palacio de Cristal in the Buen Retiro Historic Park of Madrid, Spain
Everybody goes to see the Crystal Palace in November because even though it was freezing cold…
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Thank you for supporting the Arts!
When you come to Madrid, make sure you get the row boat experience in the Estanque…
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Painting The Crystal Palace in Madrid, Spain
The Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park is so colorful and beautiful in November that it…
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My Favorite Bottles in a Row Spring 2020
The spring is so beautiful in Madrid. I’m glad I was able to make a few…
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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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Bougainvillea and Dasies in Crystal Vase 2019
A spring painting of bougainvillea and wild daisies in a crystal vase. This oil painting has…
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Bougainvillea and Poppies in Pickle Jar 2019
This is a new painting of bougainvillea and Poppies in a pickle jar. I painted it…
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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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Plaza de los Pintores – Madrid
On Sunday September 9th, I’ll be at the Plaza de los Pintores. These are some of…
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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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El Templo de Dobod Plein Air Watercolor
The Temple of Debod is an ancient building constructed in the early 2nd century BC dedicated…
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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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Sabatini Gardens Madrid, Spain
Plein Air Painting in the Sabatini Gardens These are the Sabatini Gardens in Madrid, Spain. Click…
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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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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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Plein Air Painting
I love plein air painting because it’s like keeping a memory on paper. I was at…
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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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Dante’s Inferno Canto VI (13-15) Cerberus 2016 – Watercolor on paper –
The Divine Comedy (Illustration) Dante awakens in the 3rd circle. Cold dirty rain-fall, mixing with heavy…
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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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White Rose with Crystal Vase Spring 2016
White Rose I decided to develop the rose thinking it was going to wilt too…
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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 Painting in Alameda
Last summer I was in Alameda. I did some open air painting by the shoreline. I…
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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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Open Air Painting in Olmeda de las Fuentes June, 2016
The Agrupaciòn Española de Acuarelistas (Spanish Watercolor Society) in Madrid went to the beautiful village called…
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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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Glass Bottles on Table
This is a watercolor from the series ‘My Favorite Bottles’. Here are a some painting stages.…
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Glass Bottles in the Rain 2015
This watercolor belongs to the series of My Favorite Bottles. Here are a few steps in…
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Bottles in a Corner 2015
This painting is from a series called My Favorite Bottles. I started this series in 2015.…
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How A Grid Can Help When Painting a Live Model
Using a grid while painting from life helps you put the model in perspective. Whenever people…
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Spanish Spring Blossoms in Talavera Vase 2016
This year, the spring was like an explosion of colors. We had a lot of rain…
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Spanish Poppies in front of Window 2016
Spanish poppies are very large and vivid in color which is why they are so fun to…
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Red Roses in Blue Glass Vase 2015
This blue glass vase is one of my favorite glass works to paint. I got it…
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Red Glass Vase with California Wild Flowers
I planted some California wild flowers in May, so I’ve been painting them. They are small…
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A painting of Spanish wild flowers in an exhibition at La Casa del Reloj del Matadero in Madrid, Spain
Spanish wild flowers are so colorful, ideal in watercolor. In this post, I’m going to show…
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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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