Landscape
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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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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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Watercolors of Madrid
When: June 5th from 10am to 3pm Where: Plaza del Conde de Barajas, Madrid What: Watercolors…
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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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El Palacio de Cristal del Buen Retiro en Madrid, España
Pinto en el Parque del Buen Retiro a menudo. Uno de mis edificios favoritos es el…
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La Plaza de la Paja Madrid de los Austrias 2021
This is a watercolor of la Plaza de la Paja. (The Plaza of Straw). The name,…
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Watercolor – Plaza Parterre in Madrid, Spain
The Plaza Parterre is one of the most visited gardens in the Retiro Park. The entrance…
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Fuente del Àngel Caìdo November 2019
This autumn watercolor painting is of the Fallen Angel Fountain in the Retiro Park located in…
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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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Calle del Codo in Madrid Spain
The Calle del Codo is a short and narrow street in Madrid from the Golden Age. …
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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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Line and Wash Watercolor of El Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park.
The Crystal Palace was invented by Ricardo Velazquez Bosco, built in 1887. It has a high…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Cantalojas open air painting
Just got back from Cantalojas.
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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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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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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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