Three more BRDE paintings, framed

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 Tijucas, in the afternoon, oil on card, 17 x 21.5 cm, 2017, framed

 Duck II, oil on card, 14 x  13 cm, 2012, framed    SOLD

Yellow tree NOT FOR SALE
 oil on card, 18 x 14.5 cm, 2017, framed 

This brings the number of pictures framed and ready to thirty-three.

I won`t frame more.

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Trindade, cyclist

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Trindade, cyclist, oil on card 23.5 x 19.5 cm 

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R. Gonçalves Lêdo - Trindade, bicyclist

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R. Gonçalves Lêdo - Trindade, bicyclist, oil on card, 18 x 24.5 cm discard

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Trindade- a street

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Trindade- a street, oil on card, 24 x 21 cm - available

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Trindade, Rua Prof. Belmarminio Correa

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Trindade, Rua Prof. Belmarminio Correa, 

oil on card, 21.5 x 24.8 cm - unavailable

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Painting in Trindade/ the blocky style - blocks, Trindade

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Blocks, Trindade, oil on card, 20.5 x 25 cm   available

Painting in Trindade

There are an increasing number of new blocks, none of which have much aesthetic merit or even interest. But I am trying to find something in the patterns of their facades. The older architecture isn't that interesting either, to be honest, but there are one or two older houses which have a certain charm. 

It's good to work around here, to walk to destinations and to feel that one is discovering ones own neighborhood. 

I'm working larger. I want boldness, a poster-like quality, like those famous Deco posters used for tourism advertisements- I'm preparing for Chicago which I shall try to paint in a broad and audacious manner.

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The Blocky Style
or
 fat crude lively pictures... 

The pictures here are larger than I have painted for a while and the idea is to construct a new style

The features of the new style are- 

1. thick outlines describing elements

2. clear colours

3. limited colour range

4. simple geometrical shapes 

5. cheerful storybook atmosphere.

To assist working on a larger scale I reduce to palette to four colours- a blue, white, a yellow and a warm dark colour such as a red or brown. This makes mixing easier. I use big fat brushes too. It might end up looking a lot like Sironi but less sad.

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Rua Linhares, Trindade, red car

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Rua Linhares, Trindade, Florianopolis- red car

 oil on card, 15.5 x 18 cm - available

The first of a run of pictures depicting my neighborhood.

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