Callejon de Quixote - SOLD

2/8/10 "Callejon de Quixote", 10" x 12", Oil
Since I am rushing out to the family gathering, I'm posting this plein air sketch from my trip to San Miguel in February.  The house we stayed in was behind the yellow wall on the right.

Still Life with Bananas - NFS

3/14/10 "Still life with Bananas", 10" x 12", Oil NFS
This is actually a still life I did in San Miguel de Allende on a rainy, windy day.  We decided to set up a still life indoors.

San Miguel Rooftops in Fog

1/16/10 "San Miguel Rooftops in Fog", 8" x 10", Oil
This is one of my favorite rooftop paintings of San Miguel.  Painting in fog is always a challenge, but the colors can be beautiful.

San Miguel Sunrise - SOLD

2/15/10 "San Miguel Sunrise", 5" x 8", Oil
This is another quick 10 minute oil sketch as the sun first hit the clouds above the hillside about 7:00 a.m. in San Miguel de Allende.

If you didn't get a post yesterday--check the blog for the painting I posted. I didn't get a copy of the post by email so I think there is a problem with the feed and I don't know how to fix it!!

San Miguel, Morning Light - NFS

2/14/10 "San Miguel, Morning Light", 5" x 8", Oil  NFS
This little painting was one of the very quick sketches from the roof-top in San Miguel de Allende--just a few abbreviated strokes of color using a #10 round bristle brush.  I am inspired to do these types of sketches by remembering the room full of miniature oil sketches called "apuntes" of Joaquin Sorolla at the San Diego Art Museum Sorolla Exhibition around 1990.

Yellow House on Callejon de Quixote - NFS

"Yellow House on Callejon de Quixote", 9" x 9", Oil 
These were typical of the houses on our street in San Miguel de Allende--all had interior courtyard gardens and roof-top patios.  Houses and walls were reds, yellows, greens, mustards, pinks and blues.  Painting them was about getting the colors to the right values and about reflected lights.

Cathedral of San Miguel - NFS

2/12/10 "Cathedral of San Miguel", 8" x 10", Oil  NFS
San Miguel de Allende is a city of roof-top patios, and this proved to be the most enjoyable of painting exercises--to go up to the roof at dawn and paint several small 15 to 30 minute paintings as the sun came up from behind the hill or in the case of overcast mornings, to paint the changing colors of the mist that had settled into the valley.  This was undoubtedly my favorite view--of the cathedral about a mile away.