How many stories this walls could tell...

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Watercolor 14 x9 cm

Field work

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Salt extraction, between mountains.
Well... not in the winter or springtime ;)
Only from June to September, depending on the sun.

PATH BY THE POND

Mixed media 8' x 5' 3/4

Very sunny day. Even in the Winter, sometimes there is beautiful sunny days around here.

Fishing Day

Last weekend I've been sketching here and there and selected this thumbnail sketch to do a painting.
At weekends there is always a bunch of people fishing at Foz do Arelho beach, which is the point where Óbidos Lagoon meets the ocean.
I need to go back there and catch the mood, perhaps in watercolor, and finally I'll do an oil painting.
We'll see.

ME AND MY TEACHER (I'm the one you can't see in the drawing)

This is a page of my sketchbook.
The last day of August 1999, me and my teacher and friend master painter A. Rafael went out to draw some very old and very big cork oak trees (quercus suber).
While he was drawing the old trees I was drawing him drawing the trees.
Great time en plein air!