Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Pix from Aveiro Portugal

This was a stunning scene combining multiple styles of architecture with the canal and the "moliceiro" boats. Looks a lot like Venice, so they call this little town the "Venice of Portugal". Another river town with tidal marshes and beach towns at the end of it. This town started by drying salt from seawater, for which they still are famous. Three media here: various color pens first, then watercolor pencil washed and dry (traditional watercolor pencil and Inktense ink pencils), then some transparent watercolor.
We took the bus through the built up delta towns to their beach town at the end, Costa Nova. CN is famous for all these brightly painted, fanciful or plain striped and colored houses. This is done completely and only in colored inks.

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