This painting was done in Barcelona, Spain
in 1998 on my Europe trip which took me to beautiful Paris, and around Spain. It was a very hot day in Spain, as usual for June, and I sat under some shrubs on a pile of yellow sand that turned out to be an ant hill. Luckily the ants were having their afternoon siesta and mostly left me alone. I am at the edge of the Olympic village looking towards the valley, the opposite hill is covered with urban developments.
The paint dried very fast in Spain because of the hot sun. The fast drying made it difficult to do wet techniques, so the bushes in the front are depicted with dry-brush lines and the clouds were done by blotting out the blue colour with a clean brush. It would only get hotter for me as I traveled farther south, reaching the rock of Gibraltar. Where is the snow?
Art Museum, Barcelona, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 1998 (No. 0876)
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