The Temple, the Jaguar & the Kung Fu Lesson
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
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.
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
I want to try to explain, from my point of view, what it feels like to be living here in Israel in these critical and dangerous times. One of the friends I’ve made through my art, who lives in Oregon, wrote me this: “………How are you in Israel REALLY doing?”