Plein Air at

Casa Contenta Garden

(Watercolour art through a quiet and very baroque place)

June2022

In one of the many neighborhoods of San San Miguel, there is the bistro, attended by Amber _its owner_, in front of it is Casa Contenta Garden, a very baroque guest house, crowned by two large pine trees, which house a nest of parrots at its top. The architecture of the place is very eclectic ad hoc to the thinking of the owner. It houses collections of various objects, sprinkled arbitrarily, however, the atmosphere teems with an ideal tranquility for painting.

Reference photo by: Linda Whynman.

Tracing the lines, I identify those volumes that I will later drain with a little water, putting a little more dry-wet color beforehand. For a moment I am captured by the sound of parrots. I continue and now I stop at the stone cross... I look at it and ask myself: how to capture the details carved on it?

Following one of the rules, perhaps not shared by many, even more so; as a very useful opative resource, it is the omission of those objects that do not add value in the integral composition, eliminating them completely. Hence, the interpretation is very sui generi, and rather, from my point of view, I try to attend to what is best and for the benefit of the work.