Krk island, Croatia

Three days of painting around the old city (3000 years old) with walls built between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries has been a fabulous experience!

We lucked into the best apartmnent rental in Croatia (at least to date) which has a balcony perfectly aligned for great compositions of the old walled city and especially the cathedral, with a bronze “weather angel” atop who swings with the prevailing wind.

The owners of ths apartment are artists, Dagmar (German born) and her husband Cedo (Croatian), who has designed and built this great home. Dagmar paints in watercolor and owns a gallery in the old city, while Cedo (Chay dough) expertly frames her work. We have become friends and painted together on the harbor.

We have the whole upstairs for 5 days, but could easily and readily spend 5 weeks painting here. Unbelievable colors, especially in the water and dozens of narrow passages within the city to set-up my easel. This is defnitley a keeper for painting locations and we will return here within 2 years to spend more time. The island is magical (aren't they all?!) and just takes your breath away.

The paintings/studies here have all been done in 4 days and some will require extra studio time when we return. As usual, several drawings (studies) and hundreds of photos will keep me very busy for months to come.

Speaking of months to come, we just hit the halfway point of our 3 month painting trip to Europe, with two more weeks in Croatia and then 4 more weeks in Italy. The work I am doing here will be available in mid-July, framed and ready to hang at Crow Valley Gallery in Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington, Gottlieb gallery in Portland, Oregon and later this fall at Scott Milo gallery in Anacortes, Washington and Woman of Steel Gallery in Boise, Idaho..

Please watch the web site for show dates.

Many more paintings have been produced on this trip than I have had time to “blog”. Travelling like this is not conducive to regular communications and I feel lucky to fire-off one per week.