Tag: La Manzanilla

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A Secret Gallery In La Manzanilla….Shhhhhhhhh

Yes, a secret gallery! Want to know more? Read on! Last year, while on my annual stay in La Manzanilla, my friend and art mentor Patrizio shared a discovery with me. There’s an abandoned house near him in front of which he has created a lovely garden. (I believe the impetus was to deter all

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Daily Painting – one last one from La Manzanilla

  I’m back in Victoria, Canada, and slowly slowly settling back into the groove of the north. Wonderfully, the sun shone down this past Easter weekend and Cam and I spent much of Monday in the garden. It’s just beautiful right now, with flowers and leaves bursting forth, all awakening. Next time I’ll have a

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Daily Painting in La Manzanilla – eyeglasses continued

Daily Painting   So I’m on my third daily painting of eyeglasses. (You can see the first one here and the second one here.) I guess a book was going to be the obvious accompaniment eventually and so sure enough, that’s what’s here – the book I’m reading at the moment, The Madonnas of Leningrad.

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Daily Painting in La Manzanilla – the second one

Daily Painting   I can hardly believe I’ve been here in La Manzanilla, Mexico just over a week. Time does fly. I’ve been pastelling and have another daily painting to show you.   I do like the eyeglasses as a subject (see my previous blog).  I changed the surface on which they rested as well

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Daily paintings from La Manzanilla, Mexico – numero uno!

  Saludos from La Manzanilla!   As delightful as it is here – sunny and warm, lovely people, beautiful long beach with hardly anyone on it – I have committed to pastel/draw/paint every day. I am determined to continue exploring new directions in my work as well as creating daily paintings. I have a box

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