Daily Painting

Lantern market with orange tree

The first pass below (which was followed by a scrape down) and the finish above. From a morning in Marrakech when Peyton and I went through the Place des Ferblantiers with its many lantern shops. The bright copper discs hung from the orange tree and sunlight came filtering through the branches.12"x12", oil on canvas.

Marrakech airport dusk

Morning in Marrakech

Yesterday morning I painted this from one of the many rooftop terraces of the riad where we are staying.

Elizabeth and I are furiously drawing and painting the visual feast that is Marrakech and in particular the life within the medina's ancient  walls. Excerpts from our sketchbooks are posted daily to moveablepaintbox.

 

All I had to do was open my front door

Today I recieved a beautiful gift from a traveling companion; a letter and a calendar of her photographs of Morocco. This hard evidence of of shared joyful experience flooded me with gratitude.  

 I painted the bright colorful souks stuff from one of her photographs and the alleyway from one of my own.  

5"x7", watercolor and pen on watercolor paper.

 

Tea in Marrakech

Another view from the terrace at Cafe nid Cigogne. 24"x24", oil on canvas. I am working on the schedule for Moroccan Sketchbook 2014 and getting very excited.  

Moroccan interior

A little fantasy based on so many Moroccan courtyards, orange tree included.

Watercolor cityscapes

 

One of a quiet square in Essaouria and one of Marrakech rooftops with the Atlas mountains in the distance. Approximately 8"x6", watercolor, pencil and pen on watercolor paper.

Archway in Marrakech

Another view of the Rue Riad Zitoun el Kedim in Marrakech. 8"x5",pencil, pen and watercolor.

I like the brightness it has before the pen. (I painted this street through this arch last year as well.)

Alley in Marrakech

A shop lined alley in Marrakech, running between the Rue Riad Zitoun el Kedim and the Rue Riad Zitoun el Jdid. (The same alley is depicted here from windows above.)

Two directions

For a few days in marrakech Elizabeth and I stayed in a suite of rooms over an alleyway a few steps from the Jma el Fnaa. These two windows looked in opposite directions over the pinky-orange alleyway (the name of which I cannot locate on any map).