Painting, drawing, films, stories, travel and other odds and ends
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El Jadida
This was the third place on our tour.
It has an odd feel about it: unfinished, sometimes quite slummy at other times aspiring with new, very anonymous blocks along the seafront to the east, along with fast food joints and a cinema, all oriented towards car users. The town centre is full of shops selling bric-a-brac, cheap clothing and, not to mince words, rubbish. There are innumerable cafes which seem to be occupied by men in black or brown clothes doing very little except occasionally using their cell phones.
There are restaurants serving piles of fried seafood We ate at one and I`m not sure I`d recommend the experience. The seafood is cooked in batter like British fish and chips but had an appalling greasiness about it. The service was needlessly hurried and brusque.
Mazagan
Mazagan is a walled enclave by the sea, with a church and other Portuguese architecture, and tourist oriented shops and cafes. I enjoyed painting here.
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Printed invitation to an exhibition at No31 in Duns, in the Scottish Borders, with Jenny Ozwell and Jane Rutherford.
Do come!
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Sidi Ifni: three lighter paintings of architecture
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Sidi Ifni: three darker paintings
I continued to work in this smoky style, using a mixture of Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Umber to create a sort of black.
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