Yesterday was
the last day of the workshop of Maria de Freitas, and yesterday morning we
opened the oven together, to see the results. Everything was well fired,
nothing broke. I really liked the results, so nice to experiment with help of
the examples of the masters. And for the first time the use of yellow! I
learned a lot of technical skills in this workshop! And was a nice group of
participants! Thank you!
After that
I yesterday afternoon started repainting two azulejos at the Museo do Barro
with Luis, so that after the first two azulejos were broken, I can still
realize my big panel of 4 azulejos of each 30 x 40 cm, total 60 x 80 cm.!
Tomorrow I will be ‘re’painting an azulejos of 30 x 30 cm, and a new panel Luis made for me, will be a surprise, something new!
Tomorrow I will be ‘re’painting an azulejos of 30 x 30 cm, and a new panel Luis made for me, will be a surprise, something new!
After returning
from Redondo, I got such great help from Ludger! Unbelievable!
We were building the final presentation of my residency in a shirt amount of time, and it looks so good! I am so happy with this endpresentation, and now that I saw all the work together I can’t realize how much I did!! It is a beautiful presentation.
We had a great night, thank you so much for your interest!
We were building the final presentation of my residency in a shirt amount of time, and it looks so good! I am so happy with this endpresentation, and now that I saw all the work together I can’t realize how much I did!! It is a beautiful presentation.
We had a great night, thank you so much for your interest!
It was such
a great residency! Thank you so much Ludgero and Carolina!
It was a
great season to come and work. I experienced three types of weather! And this is
well visible in this end presentation. When I came it was cold, windy, rainy,
there I made black and white paintings, with big formations of clouds. Then the
summer really started, then I painted my blue and green paintings, and then when
the heat kicked in, the grasses turned yellow, and later on even white, and
then my light paintings and even a few small paintings with a new yellow/green saw
the light. It was such a great experience to paint within and in coordination
with the season in only 5 weeks time!
I was able
to experiment more with the azulejos, new colour combinations, I learned new
techniques.This time I designed the forms of the vases, and got to paint a
serie of vases, also very nice to do (those these were during the day,
10.00-18.00 working in Redondo with the azulejos, and at night in the Casa de
Miradour painting the vases). I am now even more sure, that there is so much
more to gain, learn and enjoy, from this new segment in my work.
This
afternoon we will be taking down the exhibition in the castelo and tomorrow the
packing will begin.
Can’t believe it’s already almost over!
And so many ideas to take home too!
I look back on just a perfect residency and exhibition!
Muito obrigada!
(also for all your patience when I was talking Portuguese J!)
Can’t believe it’s already almost over!
And so many ideas to take home too!
I look back on just a perfect residency and exhibition!
Muito obrigada!
(also for all your patience when I was talking Portuguese J!)