Victoria Regia
Friday, August 26, 2016
This is one of the soft pastels plein air paintings I have done in preparation for a large dimension commission in oils. Standing by the pond at the Botanic Garden, observing the movement of the waterlilies opening and eventually closing before I could finish the paintings was a good challenge.
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"Victoria Regia" Soft Pastels
Sandra Nunes
20x40cm
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Labels: botanic garden, flower painting, impressionism, plein air painting, Sandra Nunes, soft pastels, victoria regia, waterlily
From Plein Air Painting to Studio Work
Thursday, December 24, 2015
There is no Greater Master than Nature when learning to paint. Nothing substitutes the observation and constant training of the eyes when facing natural elements.In fact, learning to paint is learning to see and translate our inner vision. Whenever I´m asked why plein air painting I have longer and shorter answers, but I always state that they are completely different ways of working.
Recently I finished in the studio the painting I´m posting now. It is a very large work for plein air!
I had already done smaller works with this theme, but for this one I started with compositional studies on the site and brought them to the studio to be developed into the final painting.
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| Victoria Regia - The Star of the Waters oil on canvas 180 x 80 cm Sandra Nunes |
By now, Happy Holidays!
I wish you a Happy and Blessed New Year!
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Labels: botanic garden, impressionism, ninpheas, oil painting, plein air painting, Rio de janeiro landscapes, Sandra Nunes, victoria regia
Vitória Regia, Star of the Waters
Friday, May 22, 2015
There´s a Tupi Guarani legend which tells that whenever the moon hid itself behind
the horizon, it took its favorite maiden to live in the sky. If the moon fell in love with a girl, the
girl would turn into a star. Naia, daughter of an Indian chief and
princess of the tribe, was impressed with the story. Then at night when
everyone was asleep , she climbed the hills chasing for the moon in the hope that
it would see her.But
the moon did not seem to notice her and couldn´t hear her sobs of sadness in the
distance. One night, Naia saw in the clear waters of a lake the shape of the
moon. The poor girl, imagining that the moon had come to pick her up, threw
herself into the deep waters of the lake and was never seen again.
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Labels: Botanical Garden, floral painting, oil painting, pleinairpainting, Sandra Nunes, star of the waters, victoria regia, victoria_amazonica
