Arte de Portas Abertas - Santa Teresa Open Studios
Friday, October 7, 2016

Santa Teresa open studios Sandra Nunes

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Santa Teresa Tram
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

After two years without its charming tram, Santa Teresa is getting ready to receive the new ones that should be here next year.
Meanwhile...an evocation of the old ones...

                                                       Old Tram at Guimaraes Station, Sandra Nunes - 46 x 61 cm

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Arte de Portas Abertas - Santa Teresa Open Studios
Saturday, August 24, 2013

                                       Laurinda Santos Lobo Cultural Center


                                        
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                                             Artists friends...

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Here comes the tram!
Monday, June 30, 2008

Continuing my Santa Teresa series, I´m still working on small and large formats . These small canvases or panels come on handy to work en plein air specially in Santa Teresa, climbing its slopes and walking on its narrow, almost non existent sidewalks. (please check the beginning of this series in my official website www.sandranunes.com).

I stopped just in front of Curvelo Tram Station and imediatelly its red roof bathed by our winter sun called my attention , so instead of painting the yellow ochre building with its acqua windows, I decided to work quick and simplify a composition with the red roof thatwas almost shining at that time of the day.




Then it was the time of children from the local public schools to leave. It was a great chance to give some movement to my theme. They ran shouting, calling their companions to catch the crowded tram.



So this painting could only be named:

Here comes the tram! Santa Teresa oil on canvas 22x27cm

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Arcos da Lapa - Gateway to Santa Teresa
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Arcos da Lapa - oil on canvas 46x55cm -Sandra Nunes

This corner in the old downtown area is very inspiring.These arches (old aqueduct) cut the district of Lapa, with its decaying colonial two-story houses, taking the old trams to Santa Teresa.
What moves and intrigues me at this site is the comtemporary atmosphere that reminds us of a romantic time gone by.

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Labels: aqueduct, Arcos da Lapa, Old Rio, plein air painting, Rio de Janeiro, Sandra Nunes, Santa Teresa, tram