Children´s and Teenagers` Rights
Sunday, July 6, 2008

I ´ve been painting in Santa Teresa for a while and I`m associated of Chave Mestra,(Santa Teresa Visual Artists Association), this way I´m getting more and more involved with the community issues.

I was invited to participate of the eighteenth anniversary of the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Law establishing children’s and Teenagers rights).
The event is produced and promoted by a Non Governmental Organization that works with the community of Morro dos Prazeres in Santa Teresa.
The aim of the event is to promote a discussion among the civil society about what has changed as well as what can be done to improve what is not working.

There will be Lectures, debates, workshops and Art exhibition

I accepted the invitation and this is one of the works that will be in the exhibition. This is not like the ones I´m used to post here, but it is enough to go out anytime and we watch to a scene like this:
Sinal Fechado - The little Malabarist oil on canvas 65x54cm - Sandra Nunes

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Labels: child work, Children rights, malabarist, Morro dos Prazeres, pleinair painting, Sandra Nunes, Santa Teresa

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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Labels: curvelo, pleinair painting, Sandra Nunes, santa teresa tram, tram, tramway

Under Repair
Friday, June 6, 2008

Under repair oil on canvas 38x61cm

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Labels: boats, oil on canvas, plein air painting, Rio de janeiro landscapes, Sanda Nunes

SouthwestArt Magazine
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

World Tour of Contemporary Landscape Artists...

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Three Falls Waterfall - Penedo
Friday, April 25, 2008

About 190 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro, this place is a piece of paradise. Penedo is a quiet place full of waterfalls formed along Rio das Pedras (Stone’s River), the generally low temperature doesn’t prevent from a bath in its cold and clean waters

Early in the morning I sat comfortably on a stone, listening just the murmur of the waters and birds singing...
Opening the paint box was a natural gesture...


After a couple of hours, tourists start to come...

Suddenly I realize I´m on a trail...that stone was on the middle of the way to the waterfall...

Time to stop...

Three Falls Waterfall - Penedo oil on canvas 16x22cm

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Old Fountain
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Old Fountain oil on linen on canvas 8"x10"

The purpose of some fountains in Rio de Janeiro was to provide potable water to the city. Some of these are still working today in their original form. This one was first built in downtown area in 1883, then in 1904 as a part of the process of modernization of the city, it was transferred to the south zone in the district of Botafogo.

Paint your village and you will paint the world...
Well, this is pretty much what I´ve been trying to do. This is the first image I see whenever I get out home, although I´ve already painted it, I´ve never composed it this way.
The morning light bathes the old fountain with Corcovado Mountain in the background as a witness.
This painting is going to Far and Near Horizons - World tour of contemporary Landscape Artists. I thought it would be interesting, to send a piece of my "daily life". The exhibition is already in its second year and to start this season it will be in Eastes Park - Fine Art Gallery, Colorado USA.

Check the exhibition schedule in the side bar of this Blog

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Labels: Corcovado, Far and Near Horizons, old fountain, Old Rio, plein air painting, Sanda Nunes, World Tour of Contemporary Landscape Artists

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

Urca Beach - Oil and sand on panel
Sunday, February 17, 2008

People always ask me why do I like so much plein air painting if in the studio it is much more comfortable. Well, I have a lot of answers to that question, short and long ones.
Maybe it´s because I love the unpredictable...
Warm sun, a light breeze...
After one hour of work on composition, first washes and I´m ready for some impasto areas.
Time to stop look and take some pictures.
A not so light breeze and...
Where is the panel?
More texture than I wanted...
A lot of scraping and much of the sand as well as my brushwork is gone.
More observation and one more hour of work...
Urca Beach - Oil and some sand on panel 8 x10"

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Labels: plein air painting, Praia da Urca, Sandra Nunes, Seascape

Rainy Morning- Praça XV
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Painting en plein air during summer in Rio de Janeiro is always a surprise. Gnerally we have sunny mornings and heavy showers in the afternoon. But we never know...
This special morning when I started this painting it was cloudy, then a bright sun appeared and later a heavy shower came down. I decided to be consistent with my beginning and kept it cloudy. I like rainy days, cools and warms kind of mix and light is difuse. Fortunatelly I had a shelter under a bridge and could finish it in the site.

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Labels: chafariz do mestre Valentim, Chafariz do Paço, Paço Imperial, pleinair painting, Praça VX, Sandra Nunes

Article in O O Globo Newspaper about plein air painting in the city
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Labels: IPAP, o globo, pintura ao ar livre, plein air painting

Article in O O Globo Newspaper About plein air painting in the city

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Labels: chafariz do mestre Valentim, IPAP, o globo, pintura ao ar livre, plein air painting

Painting in Santa Teresa Morro dos Prazeres
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Labels: Casarão dos Prazeres, Morro dos Prazeres, pintura ao ar livre, plein air painting, Santa Teresa, Sugar Loaf Mountain

Relógio e Outeiro da Glória
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Relógio e Outeiro da Gloria -Sandra Nunes -46x65cm

The morning light bathes the centenary clock and the bulwark projecting interesting patterns of shade on the sidewalk. Gloria used to be a very elegant district at the turn of XIX century, there was tramway along the bulwark and a stop here.

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Labels: oil on canvas, Outeiro da Glória, Relógio da Glória

Açude da Solidão - Loneliness Dam -Tijuca Rain Forest
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Açude da Solidão - Loneliness Dam - 46x61 cm oil on canvas Sandra Nunes

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Labels: Açude da Solidão, rain forest, Tijuca National Park

Ilha Fiscal- oil on canvas, 60x80cm -Sandra Nunes
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Ilha Fiscal- oil on canvas 60x80cm

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Labels: castle, Ilha Fiscal, marine painting, oil painting, palace, Rio de Janeiro, royal family

Marina da Glória
Monday, October 22, 2007

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Labels: boat painting, Marina da Gloria, oil painting, plein air painting, Rio de Janeiro, Sandra Nunes, Seascape

Antonio Parreiras Museum
Friday, October 19, 2007

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Antonio Parreiras Studio, oil on canvas 46x61 cm

To celebrate the 70th aniversary of death of Antonio Parreiras, one of the greatest Brazilian Landscape Plein Air Painters , artists were invited to paint in the garden of his house where today is the Antonio Parreiras Museum.
I´ve chosen this composition showing the entrance of his studio, it was an amazing experience to be in this event. As a closure, there was a show (Minha Terra tem Parreiras) when the 21 paintings were exhibited

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Labels: Antonio Parreiras, brazilian painter, landscape, plein air

Lapa o/c 61x38cm Sandra Nunes

Lapa oil on canvas 61x38cm Sandra Nunes

Lapa, Joaquim Silva street - Rio de Janeiro downtown
Traditional Bohemian area in Rio de Janeiro, it is nowadays a mix of diverse cultural and artistic manifestations. Here you find places where you listen to typical Afro-Brazilian and luso- Brazilian music - samba, forró, chorinho- as well as hip hop and other world influences. Behind the beaten by time windows, you find bars and restaurants where intelectuals come for a beer and enjoy the "Brazilian Montmarte" atmosphere. This is one of the gateways to Santa Teresa hill.

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Labels: bohemian area, Joaquim Silva, Lapa, pleinair painting, Santa Teresa, uban scape

Rio de Janeiro seen from Morro dos Prazeres, Santa Teresa
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Morro dos Prazeres, oil on canvas 60x 1.20 (24" x47") -Sandra Nunes

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Labels: Morro dos Prazeres, painting, Santa Teresa