Wander and Paint — slow travel
Destination Diaries: French Meadow Cafe & Bakery - Minneaopolis
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Nomad Log:
"Some time back in May, I headed over to one of my favorite haunts on Lyndale Ave for some comfort food. This elegant and funky place serves the best fish tacos I've ever had outside of Mexico, in huge ...huge...portions!
Colorful Colombian Door Abstract Painting
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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...
Making the Invisible Visible: Blissfully Serene
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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...
Destination Diaries: Garden of Good and Evil - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA
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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...
Carthagena Blues
abstract watercolors Anolis Architecture Art Atmospheric Blue Colombia colorful Colorwash Geckos slow travel
[...] When I travel, instead of trying to hit all the tourist places and looking at the big picture, I end up ditching the crowds...