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Art for Sale: Tenerife in Canary Islands

March 15, 2021 in Contemporary Art, Travels | Permalink

Original Artwork for sale. Tenerife, in Canary Islands, 16 x 12 acrylic painting $300 BUY NOW

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Tenerife in Canary Islands

Travelling to the Canary Islands while teaching art on Cunard Cruise Lines, I took a tour of the island. Without a doubt while on the tour of Tenerife, this view captured my soul and my spirit. As a matter of fact, painting this from a photo reference back in the studio, feeling the awe, brought me right back there. Not to mention, every time I look at this painting, I’m reminded of the trip and the joy I felt looking out at this vista. Make this beautiful painting your own and clearly you too will feel the calm and joy it brings.

Tenerife  is the largest and most populous island of the eight Canary Islands. It is home to 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands. With a land area of 2,034.38 square kilometres (785.48 sq mi) and a population of 917,841 inhabitants at the start of 2019 it is also the most populous island of  Spain. The name Tenerife originates from a now extinct language, Guanche, the language of the indigenous inhabitants and means snow mountain. After being there, the name makes sense.

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Tuscany: Here I come

March 18, 2019 in Plein Air Painting, Travels | 1 comment

I’ve always wanted to go to Tuscany and this summer I will get the chance. John and I will spend three days in Florence and then visit Barga Italy in northeast Tuscany. I have romantic notions of John and I visiting the birthplace of the renaissance, eating Tuscan food and drinking Tuscan wine.

After three days in Florence we will drive northeast to Barga, a medieval town that is an artist colony. There the plan is to enjoy the Tuscan life while painting the beautiful landscape known for it’s magnificent light. I have a friend who I know from Naked Wines who has invited us to stay with her for a bit. I want to paint her a painting as a gift so I started to get int the mod by painting the above painting of Barga with the Alps as the backdrop. Since ‘light was the star’ I decided to use the painting the light method of the Cape Cod School of Art as described by Lois Griffel in her book “Painting the Impressionist Landscape”

This has certainly peaked my interest about the trip and am looking forward to it even more.

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Travelling to Vermont

May 25, 2016 in Travels | Permalink

When we drive north we take advantage of Trip Adviser to find good places to eat.  This time we stopped at an authentic Southern Fried Chicken place.  It was the highlight of the trip.  Three generations of women serving up the best fried chicken I ever had.  We will definitely stop there again.   20160525_115234 20160525_115944 20160525_121331 20160525_121339

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