Return from Málaga, Spain

Sincerest apologies for not posting more often….after a very quiet summer, working on portrait art and a personal project that involved sneakers and cursing…..I was enlightened with a very memorable trip to Málaga, Spain. It was a workshop titled Pushing your Sketchbook Boundaries, hosted by 3 different artists, Isabel Carmona, Miguel Herranz and Luis Ruis Padrón

Another Urban Sketcher from Stockholm and I traveled and bunked together and on top of visiting Málaga, learning from talented artists, and meeting a whole bunch of new artists, I had the pleasure to get to know a beautiful person better! So here I share a few of my photos and experiences. It was about the art, but also the culture and the food. Spaniards are loud compared to Swedes and maybe an octave louder than Americans too…it was nice to experience this. But they don’t sleep at night…that was a problem!

The start of a new sketchbook

early early flight Wednesday morning, sitting in Arlanda airport waiting for my traveling friend

One of the many “airplane” sketches I have done

Dinner the first night….ensalada and paella

Malaga, Spain

I painted the mountains in Málaga from the beach.

After sketching on the beach we earned a cool drink…I had sangria, later I would learn to love tinto de verano, lemonade with a splash of red wine

Little salad, lots of fish, tasty but lots of it

Enjoying cool drinks and conversation the first night of the workshop

Getting to know each other the first night of the workshop

First day and we are off! Isabel is our first teacher….light and shade using watercolor

Isabel giving instruction.

Me and my traveling friend together.

Sweating it out…we are the pink group.

collection of our works with Isabel Carmona

Light and shade demonstrated…I wasn’t supposed to add the windows. I was reprimanded

While taking a little fika, or coffee break Isabel uses this chance to demonstrate light and shade with my face, haha

and the beautiful portrait that came from the demo

Afternoon session with Miguel Herranz, telling stories using mystery and different sizes.

Our collection from Miguel’s lesson

Dinner the first night…

Drawing moving targets with Luis Ruiz

Coffee break and sketching moving targets with Luis Ruiz after a tormented morning of failure, speaking personally.

Lunch time

Cool down session with Luis Ruiz, where he dissolves the mysteries of TREES! Very helpful, now to put it into action.

Day 2, afternoon session with Isabel. More light and shade, bigger building. That smile is an exhausted smile of imperfection, by 8:30 at night….that is all I could do.