“Flowers in blue flowerpots in (Cordoba)”
Andalucía is beautiful region situated in southern Spain. Old towns and villages with narrow streets and medieval buildings, a mixture of cultures. Places like Seville, Cordoba, Malaga, Ronda and many others.
We visited Andalucía few years ago in February. It was warmer than we thought it would be and not as packed with tourists.
We managed to visit a few of these places, travelling by car for a week; from Malaga to Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Ronda and back to Malaga.
It was a wonderful experience and we took hundreds of photos.
This week painting was inspired by one of them, taken on a street in Cordoba. A narrow street with white walls and lots of blue flower pots hanging.
I did the under drawing in soft pencil and then the painting in 4 layers, starting with a loose wash diluted with turpentine and more layers mixed with de Mayerne medium, less and less diluted.
For the walls I used warm white (lead substitute) from Michael Harding, yellow ochre deep and neutral grey and a bit of umber.
For the road I used umber, grey and some white.
For the sky, a mixture of cerulean blue and warm white.
For the flower pots I used a mixture of cerulean and cobalt blue.
“Flowers in blue flowerpots in Cordoba”
Oil on linen.
30 X 40cm (12” X 16”).
