Kite Flying Buddies

                                                                  "Kite Flying Buddies"
When I was little, my Dad used to make kites for me every February. One particular February, he made a yellow paper kite for me. My cousin and I immediately went out to fly it. I know my cousin was, at most, 4-5 years old (I was about a year younger) when this happened and it's a moment I will never forget. I can almost smell the air and see the light in the sky in my memory.

Blue Cat

                                                                         "Blue Cat"
This fellow was commissioned to me. Done from a picture, then 'translated' into water and colors to reflect all the light around him. It is also a miniature (2.5 x 3.5 inches). I know the cat, so I tried to grab his looks and personality; he is a very quiet guy that looks deeply into you. 

Bote branco

White boat by the seashore. Miniature painting in acrylics and watercolor.(sold)

Lonely Seagull

Miniature painting in acrylics and watercolor. Lonely seagulls rest over wrecked boat on the beach shore. (SOLD)

When you live for some time in the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the seagulls become part of your life. I have lived in many places where seagulls and pidgeons abound, but, in the Gulf of Mexico the seagulls are particularly abundant. From Panama City (Florida), Destin, Pensacola, the coast of Alabama and the coast of Mississippi, seagulls are your neighbors and you can picture them in many real or imaginary settings. The elements in this painting, also a miniature (2.5 x 3.5 inches) are somewhere between reality and imagination, but the colors and ambience are absolutely real. 

Bote na beira do Tejo (Boat on the Tagus Riverside)

Miniature painting of a boat on the coast of the Tagus River. Made with acrylics, watercolor and pastel pencils.

Capela em Setubal (Baleal)

Little chapel by the beach (Baleal, Setubal...in Portugal!). Painting with pastel pencils, watercolors and acrylic. (Miniature) (sold)

Vase with Blue Flowers

Vase with blue flowers. Miniature painting in acrylics and watercolor.

Barco Negro (Black Ship)

Pastels, acrylic and watercolor painting based on "Barco Negro" (fado). (sold)

 This dark painting is based on the fado titled "Barco Negro" (Black Ship). It tells the story of a young fisherman's wife. As she waves farewell to her husband at the beginning of a fishing trip, the older ladies - all wearing black as they were widows and had lived the same things before - advise her not to expect her husband back. In denial, she says..."They - the older women - are crazy...How could it be that you won't come back if I saw your white hand wave at me from the ship? How can they say you won't be back, if you never left...How can they say you won't be back if I feel you in the morning breeze?"

Very tragic story, so common in the lives of fishermen and their wives in old time Portugal.

Uma Casa Portuguesa

Portuguese house (Alentejo) in acrylics. (sold)