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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Society of Scottish Artists 121st Annual Exhibition

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I`m pleased to say that three pictures were accepted for this  exhibition, which runs from 23rd December to 17th January at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 They are from Berwick, Sifi Ifni, Morocco and  Central Park, New York.

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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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