In & Around Madrid

In between plates of awesome tapas, my friend Lola and I did manage to do lots of painting! Here are some pics from Madrid, Toledo and Segovia.

Spanish castle

When I took the watercolor class at the junior college, I brought in a photo from a calendar I had of images of Spain. I was trying to practice painting "wet-on-wet," where a brush laden with paint is brushed over an already wet paint surface. It was a lot of fun to just see what the paint would do. It is WATERcolor, after all!

Spanish village

This was painted as part of an exercise to experiment with layering different colored washes, one over the other, letting each wash completely dry before adding another.

Stray cat

When I was walking in the small town of Pontevedra, Spain, I came upon a side street where a woman was feeding a bunch of stray cats in the street. I took a picture, and from that photo came this small painting.

From photo taken in Galicia, Spain

This is from a photo I took on the coast of Galicia, Spain, a bit north of the town of Cambados, famous for its delicious Albarino wine. I was there in June 2010, and since I love Spain, it makes me happy to remember the day I looked out over this coast.