Balboa Park III, San Diego, watercolor

Balboa Park III, San Diego, California, watercolor, 6x9, available.
This is one of the small watercolors in exhibition at Gallery 21, in the Spanish Village Art Center, Balboa Park, San Diego, California. This  two women show, "Minnie Valero and Mariko Irie 2012" opened on the 9th of May and it will continue until the 21st. Come to the park, stroll along the beautiful water fountains, enjoy the museums, the gardens and flowers, see our show and buy a painting!

Double Dipping, watercolor

Double Dipping, watercolor, 6x4" (15x10cm.) available.
How do you get a style? It is the SUM TOTAL of all the workshops, all the shows, all the museum visits, all the art books and art magazines you have read, all the paintings you have painted, the good and the bad ones. In the beginning, you want to paint like "so and so", then, as you get more experience in all the areas I have mentioned, you start developing your own style.

Catedral de Burgos III, watercolor alla prima

Catedral de Burgos III, Spain,  watercolor alla prima, 6x4, available.
In the January-February issue of Artists Magazine, there is a recommendation I highly support: "Spend time at a museum. Aspire not to copy, but to seek what they sought.  They depth of your art will be in direct proportion to your love and understanding of your subject." And I add: keep a record of that museum visit, write notes, copy/sketch one of the masterpieces that struck you the most, study it, analyze each stroke, learn.  Your next paintings will reflect what you have learnt.

Table `a Peinture de Delacroix

Table `a Peinture de Delacroix, watercolor in my travel journal. When I visited the Delacroix Museum in Paris a couple of months ago, I made this watercolor of his beautiful wood cabinet/table for his paints. I work from one made of aluminum and plastic from IKEA, very practical.
Table `a Peinture de Delacroix, acuarela en mi cuaderno de viajes. Cuando visite el Museo Delacroix en Paris hace un par de meses, pinte esta acuarela de la bellisima mesa/gabinete que el tenia para sus pinturas. Yo trabajo con una mesa de aluminio y plastico de IKEA, muy practica.

Cuisine de Nat et Fred

Cuisine de Nat et Fred, watercolor, 10x15cm. Available: 100 Euros, ou $140 US.
When I was in Paris a couple of months ago, one of the museums I enjoyed very much was "Musee Quai Branly" where different cultures "meet in dialogue" they say. A pathway of words projected like a river in movement lures you into the entrance to the main hall, where five continents open their artistic wealth to the visitor: Oceanie, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, Europe...c'est si beau!
Cuisine de Nat et Fred, acuarela, disponible. 
Cuando estuve en Paris hace dos meses, uno de los museos que mas disfrute fue el "Musee Quai Branly" donde diferentes culturas "se encuentran en dialogo", dicen ellos. Un camino de palabras proyectadas como un rio en movimiento te atrae hacia la entrada del salon principal, donde cinco continentes abren sus riquezas artisticas al visitante: Oceania, Asia, Africa, America, Europa....c'est si beau!