A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

My landscape painting of the Valley of Mexico is progressing.  The painting is now two thirds complete, and all I have to do is the foregrou...

I have now done about half of my painting.  Today I completed the mountains in the background.  The two snow-covered peaks are the volcanoes...

When I began my blog a few months ago, I would have never, ever expected what happened to me yesterday. I was looking through the comments...

In my last post I mentioned that I was going to do a painting based on a landscape by the nineteenth century Mexican artist José María Velas...

I guess I am revealing my "old-fashioned" taste in art, but my favorite Mexican painter is not any of the internationally known mu...

After a couple days of moderate temperatures and sunshine (which melted almost all of the existing snow), the frigid air has returned to Ohi...

Long ago there was a great city, built by an unknown tribe, home to hundreds of thousands of people.  It was a city carefully planned with b...