I've had a camera since I was a little girl. My parents gave me a small brownie camera in the 1950's when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Every once in a while I look at my old photos and several years ago I scanned some old 35 mm negatives into my computer too. This painting was from a photo taken in 1970 when I was on a car trip from Belgium (where I was living at the time) through France and down to Spain. We stopped at many of the famous tourist sites and I took pictures.
This view of Granada was taken from the Alhambra. I thought it would be very challenging to make into a painting. I'm not sure it's completely finished, but I like the way it came out. I'll leave it for a few weeks and see if I want to do anything else to it. It is an 8" X 10" acrylic painting on stretched black canvas.
I've also learned that I don't need to buy black canvas if I want a painting on black. I bought some black gesso (Bob Ross brand) and that works just as well. It is better than black paint over white gesso.
Photo above is also from 1970, the same trip. I haven't been back to Spain since then, but I still hope to take a trip there in the future.
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