All sketches for the three bigger paintings (100 x 140 cm.) are made.
Yesterday morning i have started painting them outside, and later that day i worked some more in the studio. Because of the high temperatures here, i decide to put the basic layer of thin paint on in the open air, and work all day, except for 1700.-19.30, because of the heat.

 

Visit to the chapel of Sainte Isabella in Estremoz. I visited the chapel last year, and liked so much i really wanted to return this year. We had to wait till 15.00 h. for the lady with the key, but it was worth while ; she told all the anekdotes, like with this painting ; Queen Isabella wanted to take care of the poor by bringing them bread every morning. Her husband, the king, didn't want that, so he forbid her. One morning he caught her, with her dress filled with bread. When he asked her what she was doing, she told him, that she was collecting roses, because that early in the morning thgey were best to make parfum. When he checked her dress, as in a miracle, it was filled with roses.
She also died in this chapel, that used to be her bedroom.

Now...back to my paintings :)