Travel back to Spain
2023年5月21日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
“The best journey takes you home.”
It’s been a great 10 days in
Italy 🇮🇹 and my painting course with Thomas Schaller is something I’ll never forget! That said, we’re both lookingもっと詳しく
“The best journey takes you home.”
It’s been a great 10 days in
Italy 🇮🇹 and my painting course with Thomas Schaller is something I’ll never forget! That said, we’re both lookingもっと詳しく
Our day in emojis:
-Up early☀️
-Rain🌧️
-Taxi debacle!🚕🤬
-15-minute sprint 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏻💪🏻🥵
-Missed 🚊 😡😢
-Turkish toilets😩
-Later 🚊 and Find Penguinsもっと詳しく
Coffee is important here in Italy and we’ve embraced the moka each morning https://youtu.be/oVwtNYd3eQU
We woke again to rain (ugh) and then I tripped the breaker by running the oven and dishwasherもっと詳しく
The sun was shining (finally!) and after a not-so-great day yesterday I was more optimistic. Watercolor is so much harder than oils or pastels… and my drawing skills clearly need work (in the churchもっと詳しく
Today kicked off with an optional critique (only one brave soul). It was raining so the morning lecture/demo was canceled and we sketched inside the Basilica de San Frediano (a 6th century church hereもっと詳しく
We used Palazzo Pfanner as a base today due to rain. Today’s lecture and demo focused on perspective and value. When it comes to watercolor painting, the drawing is everything. And the focus is onもっと詳しく
The truth is, I have never painted in plein air and only started with watercolor this past January. My mediums are oil, acrylic (pours), and pastels. I feel way out of my depth, but am determined toもっと詳しく
We woke to gray skies in Siena but are hopeful for some sun in Lucca (the overall forecast for this trip was dire, but so far we’ve been lucky!) It’s colder than we expected but we anticipatedもっと詳しく
A “drift” is when you either wander aimlessly around a town stopping at whatever catches your eye or else choose a distant destination as your guide even if you never end up there. We drift aroundもっと詳しく
We’d heard that ChatGPT can create an itinerary so we decided to give it a try, asking the AI for a “relaxing day trip around Siena (not including Lucca)” where we’ll be heading on Sunday forもっと詳しく
What a nice way to follow all your travel discoveries along with you. Thank you for sharing this trip with us. [Mona Agia]