WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD! acrylic on canvas

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD! acrylic on canvas, 28x22, in exhibition and for sale at the restaurant/bar  Inn at the Park, Spruce and 6th St., San Diego, California. It seemed the perfect painting to start this New Year 2014. Happy New Year!

I was reading recently about Delacroix. He admired Rubens, was a great reader, and very curious. Eugene Delacroix was in constant search of new techniques.  He liked to prepare backgrounds, many of them, without any idea how he would later use them. Then, when he was ready to paint, he would look at the 20 or 30 backgrounds, and select the one to start his new painting.

Cuisine de Nat & Fred

Cuisine de Nat & Fred, watercolor, 4x6" (10x15cm.) As I paint everywhere I go, when I was in Chantilly and Paris last week, I did this small watercolor of my friend's kitchen.
Styles in Painting, by Paul Zucker, wonderful book. The author compares same genre paintings from different painters, and different times, sometimes different centuries. Great idea, amazing results! In the "Three Graces" category, for example, he compares "The Three Graces" in a Pompeiian mural from the year 70 A.D., with Raphael's, Botticelli's, Vasari's and Rubens' "Three Graces". Your homework: find and look at these paintings, and send me a message: which of the four painters I've mentioned copied almost exactly from the Pompeiian mural?
Cocina de Nat & Fred, acuarela. Como yo pinto en todas partes donde voy, cuando estuve en Chantilly y Paris la semana pasada, hize esta pequena acuarela de la cocina de mis amigos.
Styles in Painting, (Estilos en Pintura) de Paul Zucker, fantastico libro. El autor compara el mismo genero de pinturas de diferentes pintores y distintas epocas, a veces siglos. Gran idea, resultados asombrosos! En la categoria "Las Tres Gracias", por ejemplo, el compara "Las Tres Gracias" en un mural de Pompeya del ano 70, con "Las Tres Gracias" de Raphael, Botticelli, Vasari, y Rubens. Tu tarea: encuentra y mira con cuidado estas pinturas, y enviame un mensaje: cual de estos cuatro pintores que he mencionado copio casi exactamente del mural de Pompeya?