Back to Painting

Many years ago, when I was a member of the local fine arts club back in Ohio, I did a lot of landscape paintings.  I would participate in the club's art shows and actually sell some paintings.  However, after meeting Alejandro, I spent more and more time in Mexico, and I really did not have time to devote to the club or to painting.  It reached the point that the only painting that I did each year was the one that I would use for my Christmas card.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found a store down here that has a good selection of art supplies.  I have wall space in the apartment that could use some artwork.  So a couple weeks ago, I began work on a painting that I plan to hang at the entrance to the master bedroom.  Several of the pieces in that room are from Yucatán, including a large painting by an artist from Mérida, and a Mayan wood carving.  I decided to continue that theme, went through photos that I had taken of Mayan ruins in Yucatán, and decided on a picture to be the basis for a painting.

It is far from finished, but the work is progressing, and (knock on wood) I am satisfied with it so far.  It is a painting of the palace at one of the lesser known Mayan archaeological sites, Sayil.

Hopefully, before the end of the year, the painting will be finished, framed, and hanging in the apartment.