This is a painting I made last Friday during a break in the wonderful torrential rain. It shows our Mediterranean balcony garden with rain reflections on the terrace. Unlike most of my work, I finished it in a couple of hours, and it’s a plein-air painting – painted in front of the “motif.” I haven’t done such work in many years, so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. In the end I was pretty pleased. The composition, the colours and the feel of it all seem to hang together quite well. Apart from some initial frustration at the sketch stage, I enjoyed the experience. I loved that I could finish a painting in only two or three hours. Now I’m looking forward to doing some more.
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Here’s another balcony painting I made – a night-time view.
If you’re interesting in reading more about Mediterranean balcony gardening, the excellent Mediterranean Garden Society, based in Greece, has some good resources about container-planting for the Mediterranean climate.
And here’s a detail of the geraniums on our balcony, at the right side of the painting, from a different time (this last summer) and a different angle. I hope to post further photos and paintings of our Mediterranean balcony garden soon.
