Pintando!

Queridos Amigas y Amigos,
Mark and I are thrilled to be painting again!

Mark attends a figure drawing open class several times a week, which gives him a chance to make friends with other artists. His latest works combine the figure and landscape - shall we call them "Flanscapes?" (A good Spanish joke, because our favorite desert is the delicious, fresh custard called flan). He's using mostly gouache, an opaque watercolors which you can buy here in Spain, but not in the US, in jars, so it's much cheaper than in the usual small tubes.

I've been alternating between pencil drawing, watercolors, gouache and acrylic paint, playing with different techniques and themes. Now I'm working on two things: a "postcard" theme featuring birds and buildings in Valencia (fanciful art), and a series of small paintings describing the main ideas in the book "Crossing the Rubicon"(more serious), a fascinating and unsettling book about the end of the age of cheap oil, and the inhumane mindset that has brought us to this point.

We'll be heading for Italy soon, taking loads of digital pictures and sketching when possible(Linus generally prefers action over sitting, so we'll be kyaking + hiking in the Cinque Terre region, walking to explore the cities and towns, and any enjoying every other kind of adventure / exercise we can find, as well as EATING! Yummm... Gelato.......). I wonder what kind of inspiration Italy will bring to our work?

Hasta pronto, Margot + Los Chicos