Spangland – 2012 Holiday Postcard #5

After spending over a week in Southern Spain both the gaps and similarities between the Spanish and the immigrant and holidaying population (overwhelmingly English people) began to give me a headache. It wasn’t the beer or the sun – honestly, thou…

After spending over a week in Southern Spain both the gaps and similarities between the Spanish and the immigrant and holidaying population (overwhelmingly English people) began to give me a headache. It wasn’t the beer or the sun – honestly, though as in many other places round the world, beer was one of the things most people seemed to have in common.

At times I felt the Andalusian coastal area was confused. Spanish? English? Both? I painted this circular flag shape to represent the confusion. The border off the edge of the flag could represent some kind of solar effect, or perhaps the ring of condensation a cold beer glass leaves on the table?

Apologies for the heavy blue tint on the photograph – I took this one in fading evening light.

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Riviera Sol! – 2012 Holiday Postcard #3

Whilst in Southern Spain we visited a fantastic poster art exhibition which inspired me to paint this card. The lettering was a painstaking process and I really enjoyed streaking the sunny colours on afterwards. I’ve also included an earlier sketc…

Whilst in Southern Spain we visited a fantastic poster art exhibition which inspired me to paint this card. The lettering was a painstaking process and I really enjoyed streaking the sunny colours on afterwards.

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I’ve also included an earlier sketch of the idea which I painted while on the beach, in case you are interested to get a feel for how the fiished product came about.

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Home by the Sea – 2012 Holiday Postcard #2

This is the second of six postcards I painted for friends whilst on holiday in Spain recently. On our way to the beach one day we were stopped by a time share saleswoman. She proceeded to give us the spiel before excitedly announcing that we’d won…

This is the second of six postcards I painted for friends whilst on holiday in Spain recently. On our way to the beach one day we were stopped by a time share saleswoman. She proceeded to give us the spiel before excitedly announcing that we’d won something and we had to all go together to some hotel down the road for four hours yawn blah yack yack….

We walked on to the beach where I did some doodling. From that doodling emerged this postcard, inspired by the timeshare saleswoman. It’s a mix of water colour and pencil and I enjoyed painting it, though I wonder if I might have been better off using acrylic paint for the lettering – water colour doesn’t really lend itself to such solid colour detail type work, at least not in my hands!

Hope you are enjoying the series so far.

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