ROPA TENDIDA, watercolor on Yupo

ROPA TENDIDA, watercolor on Yupo, 20x26 in (51x66 cm.) found a new home yesterday, in La Jolla, California. It was bought at the Juried March Exhibition of the San Diego Watercolor Society.

I painted this watercolor a few years ago, inspired by rooftops and hanging laundry in Lisbon, Portugal. I have "a thing" for rooftops and hanging laundry. Love them! I guess it reminds me of when I was a little girl in Mendoza and Córdoba, in Argentina. There is no nicer smell than the clothes from the line hanging in the sun, is there?

Camino de Santiago II, watercolor

Camino de Santiago II, watercolor, 7x10 in.
Santiago de Compostela, in the NorthWest corner of Spain is a very popular town among religious and non-religious people. The walks through Europe, from Germany, from Italy, from France, from Portugal and from all corners of Spain, toward this remote corner of Spain,  in the region of Galicia, started in the Middle Ages, when some human bones were discovered in the town, and believed to be the bones of this priest/saint. So the walks to Santiago started as religious, and now people from all over the world do a few miles/kilometers or hundreds of them, according to their faith, their desire to do the walk, their stamina and previous preparation, and the time they have allowed to do "the walk to Santiago".  Along the different walks, as they converge in the town from the East and the South, you find refuges, and special bed and breakfast places, from simple to more elaborate and comfortable, for the different economic level of the walkers. They all share a very friendly attitude, a kind and generous mind. A shell ("concha " in Spanish) is the symbol, which you see painted, or engraved, on walls, sidewalks, posts, or gardens and pathways along the route. Rest stops help the wayfarers regain their strength. Most of the road is beautiful!

Pont St.Louis, Porto

Pont St. Louis, Porto, Portugal. Watercolor in my travel journal, 4x6" (10x15cm.) Designed by Eiffel, a couple of years difference with the famous Tower in Paris, this bridge looks like the Eiffel Tower lying down! I'm thinking of Delacroix, and his incredible infancy full of accidents. Few babies have gone through what he did: by the age of three, Eugene Delacroix had survived being hung, almost drowned, poisoned,  and strangled.
Puente St. Louis, Porto, Portugal. Acuarela en mi cuaderno de viajes. Disenada por Eiffel, con unos pocos anos de diferencia de la famosa Torre en Paris, este puente parece la Torre Eiffel acostada! 
Estoy pensando en Delacroix, y su increible infancia llena de accidentes. Pocos bebes han sobrevivido lo que sobrevivio: a la edad de tres anos, Eugene Delacroix ya habia sobrevivido de estar casi colgado, envenenado, ahogado, y estrangulado.

Malena

Malena, mixed technique, 30x22" (75x55cm.) Available: 800Euros = $1200 US. In exhibition at the Galeria Gerardes da Silva, Porto, Portugal, until September 30th.
Dona Watson has said: "I approach my mixed media (acrylic and collage) paintings like a Japanese garden composition, where the entire composition follows the placement of the first stone."

Malena, tecnica mixta. Disponible: 800 Euros = $ 1200 US. En exhibicion en la Galeria Gerardes da Silva, en Porto, Portugal, hasta el 30 de setiembre.

Dona Watson ha dicho: "Yo comienzo una pintura de tecnica mixta (acrilico y collage) como una composicion de un jardin japones, donde toda la composicion del jardin sigue la colocacion de la primera piedra."

Cambalache

Cambalache, mixed technique, 22x15" (55x37.5cm) Available: 500 Euros, $ 750 US. In exhibition at Galeria Gerardes da Silva, Porto, Portugal, till September 30th.
To live freely, to learn, to set one's own standards, to travel and to create something that others would cherish is how I choose to live. There are no shortcuts and there are no compromises.

Cambalache, tecnica mixta, disponible: 500 Euros, $750 US. Expuesta en la Galeria Gerardes da Silva, Porto, Portugal, hasta el 30 de setiembre.

Vivir libremente, aprender, definir mis propios estandards, viajar y crear algo que otros cuidaran con amor, es como you elijo vivir. Sin cortar camino, y sin comprometer mis ideales.