Hot summer days

Hot Summer
dyptich, 


This dyptich says it all: it is hot here in Spain...

Not my kind of weather to make art, I seem to get no further than some storyboard composing with my photo-editing programm

But that's not bad at all, since some practising and skill improvement is highly desirable.

Wishing you lovely summer days too,

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Regina

Backgrounds

 

 

 

 

 

Hi!

 

Not much happening in my corner of Spain.

 

Though we do have the Moors and Christian

 festival currently,with its closing part tonight,

I once again did not go to watch it.

 

Somehow celebrating these fights of ages ago by way of a reenactment does not appeal to me.

Especially in this time where history seems to repeat itself throughout our Western world, I prefer not to celebrate it, how beautiful and wonderful this spectacle may be...

 

On a different note:

the storyboard above has been composed of details of some recent work by me. They are backgrounds at this stage,

I just started painting without any objective in mind, simply enjoying 'what if?'

 

We are supposed to paint clouds this time,

 but despite the fact that I love to look at skies, I feel no need to paint them.

 But that may come later,

this time just background details

 

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Enjoy your Sunday, thanks for reading

 

Regina

 

Painting summer

 

 

No need to say more...

 

Regina

Chiringuito's

After a hot summer day in Spain, it is always good chilling

in one of the many chiringuito's

that are on the coast...

 

 like this one,

between the lovely village of Moraira

 

 

somewhere in between

 

 

 where young and old come for a

refreshment and some music...

 

 

with in the distance the next city,

Calpe

 

More on these lovely beach businesses here:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiringuito

 

Greetings from Spain,

 

Regina

Liberty...

 

...

 

Can hardly see you now



On being inspired

 

Hi!

 

 

Restless Mind

digital collage

 

This is not a time for making art... Not for me, now all things 'summer' are needing my attention.

 

The yard is in full bloom, with our Jacaranda tree in a leading role with its purple-blueish flowers, so lovely!

Reminds me to take pictures today, because very soon it will be over again. Furthermore we have two old rose plants, one in a old fashioned pink color (which I absolutely do not like), the other one bright red. Both plants have been trimmed heavily by me and that seems to do the trick: fully in bloom for the first time since we live here.

 

The garden is a big mess on the backside of our house. We are making new terrasses and a summer house there, where we can have dinners in a comfy setting. It could also be a place for painting, when the weather is too hot inside. But first the mess, inevitable.

 

Our son has been visiting and of course that means quality time with him. Not a time to sit in my studio all alone like a hermit (which I normally love...)

 

But like always there is Inspiration galore!

I found two very inspiring paintings when I was preparing our painting theme of Nothing. The first one was with asemic writing and the second one I was attracted to by its colorscheme.

 

So yesterday, in a lost moment, I managed to combine these pics and compose the above digitial collage.

 

I have called it Restless Mind

for that is somewhat how I feel these days...

 

Thanks for reading, enjoy your day,

 

Regina

 



Nothing...

...is our painting theme for this month.

Just trying to let the brushes and the paint work together,

 to discover the way in which colors interact and influence each other on the canvas

 

 

though I did not think any good of the theme, I decided to give it a go,

for I had nothing to lose

 

 

I overpainted one of the abstracts I did a few years ago

 

 

and am happy with the results...

 

 

though the theme was Nothing...

 

Bye for now,

 

Regina