Óbidos Lagoon early morning

(clicking on image brings up larger view)

Watermedia on paper 15'x6'

Quiet waters, quiet mornings by the lake

Óbidos Lagoon

Oil on panel 11 x14
... with marks of a perfect landing facing down... and now part of it!

RIO DE ONOR

Oil on linen 13' x 18 1/2' (33 cm x 47 cm)

Private collection

Rio de Onor is a small village in the North, in a region called something like «behind the mountains», and it is the last communitary village in Portugal.

The picture depicts a tipycal house made of raw stone and wood.

Winters can be very severe in this place, so people live upstairs and the animals, like goats, oxes and cows they live downstairs, keeping the house warm.

I painted this one in the summer.

Alcobertas, Portugal, (O Casal)

watercolor sketch. 8x12 cm.

Candeeiros mountain, west coast of Portugal.
This is a mountain house where my grandparents lived all their lives.
Nobody lives there anymore but Tintin, the dog.