Last Saturday a group of photographers was here in Chelva. They took lots of photos of the environment and snapshots of us all there. You will see more later. We had a wonderful day.
Photo Manolo Pórtoles. The family photo at the end of the day.
Last Friday I finished the portrait of this little girl for my next video tutorial. All the footage has been completed. Hopefully the editing will be finished before I leave for my summer courses in France next month. I’d better roll up my sleeves and get busy!
Portrait of a little girl. Click two times to enlarge.
Today I started my new tutorial portrait of a little girl video. My painter-studio is now turned into a movie studio. A couple of days of high concentrated work on both: painting the portrait and capturing on video. A devilish task. Followed by two month of editing.
Last weekend a group of volunteers cleaned the hills around the former Chelva landfill.
We were about 30 people. It is incredible what you can do in one hour! We will repeat this action end of this month at the other side of the village.
The “harvest ” of one hour work.Cleaning the surroundings of the landfill.
Sometimes you do not want to say goodbye to a portrait. Therefore, it took a long time before I could deliver this painting. But eventually all work has to leave the studio. That´s life.
I added this post on 9 may 2012. The portrait was delivered on the 10th. The grandfather was really proud and the same evening he called his friends to invite them to see the painting. The next morning the poor man died. What a tragic message!
Just some pictures that I took today. You can see the onions are harvested and are drying in the shadow. Our dog Betty is the watching over them, probably she likes the smell. The kitchen garden is my wife´s pride and joy.
The dog´s watching over the onions.Helma in the kitchen garden.
