Hello! I hope this letter find you well.
This past month I started a new painting and I travel to Spain to attend an oil painting portrait workshop.
Starting with the new painting, I extended my sketchbook practice to the canvas. This translation became a very joyful feeling. I just opened a brand new canvas that I had at the studio and started my underpainting in acrylics right away. I can not explain how free I felt and how beautiful was to paint without the limiting marks of a very tight underdrawing. So here I am not talking about perfection but about emotion. This is a 90 x 70 cotton canvas.
This painting is about a daily life scene. You can see more of the process of this painting in my last youtube video.
By this moment there is also another painting on my easel, the one I talked about on my last painting letter. So I did the underpainting in acrylics and also recorded some close ups process for my patrons (thank you patrons!) As per usual in this stage, the idea was to block in the main shapes in color, in order to prepare for the next and probably last color step. For the last step, I will be keeping an Alla prima method as I don’t want to be painting infinite layers.
I have the opportunity to attend a portrait painting workshop with painter Natalia Segovia in Valencia so I travel and spend some days in Spain. The workshop was very rewarding. I was born and raised in Madrid so being in Spain and spending some days for painting felt very nice. I had some time to take a walk in Valencia city and I went to an expo from Joaquin Sorolla so I got to see some of his works that I’ve never seen before in person. I also bought a really interesting book about some of his smallest paintings that he painted as a studies. So beautiful. I was very happy to enjoy all the beautiful view by the train, seeing all the orange trees almost everywhere.
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WORKSHOPS
My next oil painting workshops:
09 December 2023 - L’Ami Couleur (Liège-Belgique)
16 December 2023 - L’Atelier(s) (Belgique)
Some places are still available so if you speak french, don’t hesitate to contact me for more info.
If you want to organize a painting workshop, please contact me via email for more details elenaburcioa[at]gmail.com
COMMISSIONED PAINTINGS
Before I finish this December letter, I wanted to remind that I am currently taking painting commissions. Please, feel free to visit my shop online for more details.
As a holiday present I created a discount code of 10% for you to enter for any order of my shop during this month of December 2023.
DECEMBERGIFT
I hope you have a nice day, see you soon for the next year. Wishing you happy holidays.
Best.
Elena.