Monday, 16 March 2015

#21 / Catalan Clouds




#21 / Catalan Clouds

I did a painting on Friday (#20) but couldn’t get it posted, so I shall post it during this week.
We are lucky enough to be (relatively) close to Spain to the West and also to Italy to the East. This is a painting of clouds over Cataluña, an area we have visited a number of times whilst we have been living in France and a fiercely proud region fighting for independence from Spain. We have practiced our ‘Adeo’s’ and are not quite sure if we should say ‘gratheeas’ or ‘graseeas’, still, they put up with our fumbling efforts and if all else fails we communicate in French as they are so used (particularly on the border between France and Cataluña) to French tourists booze cruising over the border and back again.
I tried to paint this mostly with a palate knife so that I didn’t get bogged down by detail, only being more precise with the shadows the clouds cast on the mountains and hills in the distance.

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