Spooky spooky...

Published by: Miki on 11th Jul 2010 | View all blogs by Miki

With me being the Travelscapers travel guide, I think it is up to me to be brave and to start this blog which will take us all around the world, in words and paintings.

To start with, some words about the logistic of my painting trips: whenever it is possible, we travel with our motorhome, which we called "The Boomobile". I always dreamt of travelling through the world in such a machine and to paint everything I see. Being masters in trying to realise our dreams, some years ago in 2007, we decided to buy one. The motorhome market here in Spain being empty, we bought it on the internet, from somebody in Brittany. We flew there, picked it up and brought it back to Spain. Needless to say, it was quite a risky thing, but we have been very lucky, the motorhome was -and still is- in a perfect state of health and the sellers were a wonderful couple. And since we have it, we travel around in it, park it wherever I see something to paint, and really: I cannot think of a better way for my travel sketching.

Now, and before we lift anchor to take another little trip soon, I want to tell you an anecdote from my last painting trip, at the beginning of June this year. We went to Agua Amarga, a tiny little village by the sea, in the provincia of Almeria (Andalusia, Spain) and located within the famous Natural Park of Cabo de gata-Nijar. To give you an idea how the village looks like , here is one of the sketches I did