The Wind Rises, BY HAYAO MIYAZAKI, watercolor

THE WIND RISES, by Hayao Miyazaki, filmmaker. Watercolor in my art-notebook after watching the film.  It narrates the story of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed several Japaneses war planes during II W.W., and how his work was in direct opposition to his sweet and delicate nature, and his love for his lovely and sick wife. This film is all in watercolors! Beautiful, gorgeous, watercolor paintings, one after the other one! It is a MUST SEE!

Picasso's Birthplace, Malaga, Spain, watercolor and ink

 Picasso's birthplace, in front of Plaza de la Merced, in Malaga. I happened to visit it last Sunday, October 25th, exactly on his birthday!!!
I painted this quick sketch viewed from the corner across.

He would have been 133 years old.
To celebrate his birthday, they had prepared thousands of birds "palomas", his favorite bird, and hang them from the entrance door, plus all over the square, and different balconies around the square.
Here is the picture of the same corner, with the colorful paper "palomas":