Fruit

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Fruit, oil on card, 14 x 17 cm

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Book

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Book, oil on card, 12.5 x 14 cm

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An egg on a plate

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An egg on a plate, oil on card, 16 x 13 cm

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Two apples and the edges of a plate and of a table

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Two apples and the edges of a plate and of a table

 oil on card, 15.7 x 17 cm

It's very pleasing to work economically. You focus on little and learn much.

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Bowl, plate with sweets, fruit

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Bowl, plate with sweets, fruit, oil on card, 13.5 x 16 cm

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Servidão Alcides Anacleto Vieira - Pantanal

 oil on card, 24 x 21 cm unavailable

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Gardens, Trindade; Ecuador; carriers

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Gardens, Trindade, Florianopolis, oil on card, 21 x 24 cm unavailable

These larger pochades are less easy to get right as they demand a more sophisticated compositions. 

With this in mind, how many pictures can one reasonably expect to be successful in a week's painting, and therefore how many pochade carriers should I take to Ecuador?

Approximately a third of sessions are successful- the others can optimistically be regarded as "preparatory". So, with two sessions a day and fourteen a week, there will be five good pictures (if I am lucky) at the end of each week....which means I need only take about 15 carriers.

At the end of each week a few carriers can be "liberated" because the pochades inside them will be dry and can be removed.

All this matters as I like to carry as little as necessary when travelling.

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Santo Antonio- in fields

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Santo Antonio- in fields, oil on caqrd, 20 x 23.5 cm - unavailable

A difficult painting because it was so hard to arrive at a simple model of what I saw. Or sometimes I wasn`t satisfied for strong but mysterious reasons.

 It seems to me that for this style to work it is best to have a very limited palette or one becomes confused working.

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Two paintings from Ingleses- late afternoon and evening

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 Ingleses, November 2018, late afternoon- available

 oil on card, 23 x 18.5 cm

Ingleses, early evening, November 2018,  available

 oil on card, 21 x 24.5 cm

Too cloudy for much of a sunset, but very enjoyable to sit there working nonetheless. despite the tourists with their horrible music.

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Governador Celso Ramos, mountain

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Governador Celso Ramos, mountain, oil on card, 24 x 21.2 cm

This is a sort of Cezanne-influenced picture that  find it very agreeable to paint from time to time, though Cezanne`s brushstrokes are usually more systematic than mine.

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Florianopolis: in the centre- Rua Blumenau

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Rua Blumenau, a white building, oil on card, 18 x 17.5 cm - available

The streets of Florianopolis weave and twist in the strangest ways. You start walking around, then find yourself right back where you started, having managed to go in a giant circle quite unawares.

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Florianopolis, centre

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 Florianopolis, centre, street

 oil on card, 20 x 17.5 cm  unavailable

Florianopolis, blue striped building

oil on card, 21 x 24 cm -unavailable

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Ratones, afternoon in October

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Ratones, afternoon in October, oil on card, 19.5 x 24 cm

I shall do some research into Ivon Hitchins, in whose shadow I step.

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Praia Mole, October

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Praia Mole, October, oil on card, 20 x 23.5 cm - available

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Florianopolis

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Rua Herman Blumenau, oil on card, 20 x 16.5 cm- unavailable

This is the first of a run depicting places in central Florianopolis- a busy, often battered locale.

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Praça XV, Florianopolis

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 Praça XV, Florianopolis, from the Cathedral  available

 oil on card, 15.5 x 14.5 cm

 Praça XV, Florianopolis, oil on card, 21.5 x 17.5 cm

These works continue a series of Floripan paintings done with a view to the Association of Artists of Santa Catarina (ACAP, which I recently joined) Christmas exhibition. The architecture of the town centre is often highly detailed and, though prettily coloured, makes a rather fussy basis for the sort of painting I enjoy.

The city is full of vagrants and rough sleepers who rather seem to take over the city after the shops close. 

These pictures pursue the simple style, somewhat like that used in children`s books, and which seems appropriate to the character of the town.

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Praça Getúlio Vargas, Florianopolis,

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 Big white building, Praça Getúlio Vargas, oil on card, 19.5 x 17.5 cm - unavailable

Praça Getúlio Vargas, trees, oil on card, 19 x 17.5 cm

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View from the road to Sambaqui

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View from the road to Sambaqui, oil on card, 19.5 x 24 cm unavailable

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Santo Antonio da Lisboa, looking East

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Santo Antonio da Lisboa, looking East

 oil on card, 25 x 21.5 cm

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Santo Antonio da Lisboa- from above, late September

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Santo Antonio da Lisboa - from above, late September

oil on card, 22 x 17.5 cm - unavailable

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