Wander and Paint

Colorful Colombian Door Abstract Painting

• Abstract Painting • abstract watercolors • Atmospheric • Colombia • Salento • slow travel

Colorful Colombian Door Abstract Painting

Salento, Colombia. Number 3 in the latin American watercolor series.   Salento, Colombia. In the Latin American watercolor series, this is inspired from the famously colorful doors of Salento, Colombia.  Although the original art piece doesn't have any text,  for the sake of science, I decided to experiment a little with lettering.  I played around with some basic graphic formats, ended up thinking that this looked more like a poster of some sort of travel advertisment and abandonned further exploration. The original painting itself does make a fantastic wall print with all these delicious bright colors. It's available for purchase...

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Making the Invisible Visible: Blissfully Serene

• Abstract Painting • abstract watercolors • Antigua • Atmospheric • Guatemala • serene • slow travel

Making the Invisible Visible: Blissfully Serene

Guatemala, Antigua- An interpretation of luscious Latin American colors.  Discovering ways to make the invisible visible has almost become an obsession -especially when I travel. It's always tempting to try to unveil the magic hidden in the world.  Some magical things, however, resist any sort of poking. Color washes in a lot of my watercolors illustrate this effect. I never know what I'm going to get until the very end of a painting session. In the case of Antigua in Blue, I was lucky, and I guess discerning enough, to leave the  painting alone at the rest time. Prints of...

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Destination Diaries: Garden of Good and Evil - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA

• architectural Illustration • botanical illustration • Crescent City • Illustrated art journals • New Orleans • Pen and Ink • Power Places • slow travel • Urban Sketching

Destination Diaries: Garden of Good and Evil - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA

The second piece in the New Orleans series, "sees me walking down the alleys and corridors of Bourbon Street. On such a journey, one is bound to stumble upon vistas that feed overactive imaginations...

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Everyday Life #6 Fermented Radish

• art journals • colorful • cookbook illustrations • Editorial illustration • Food illustration • Gouache • hand-painted • Illustrated art journals • Kitchen Wall Art • Pen and Ink • Radish • recipe illustration • slow food • watercolor art journals • Wild foods

Everyday Life #6  Fermented Radish

[...]Between research, ideation, material and final rendering, the entire creative process took seven active hours to complete over two days....

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Carthagena Blues

• abstract watercolors • Anolis • Architecture • Art • Atmospheric • Blue • Colombia • colorful • Colorwash • Geckos • slow travel

Carthagena Blues

[...] When I travel, instead of trying to hit all the tourist places and looking at the big picture, I end up ditching the crowds...

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