Joie de peindre en plein air by Bruce Bingham

Cuban Mariachi

by Bruce Bingham

12 x 9

oil on museum board

This was a painting I started in Cuba.

I seem to paint alot of musicians

because I'm attracted to the energy and the feeling of celebration.

They move like crazy and eventually leave.

I know, you'd like I'd catch on.

They left in about 15 minutes and I didn't even get a photo of them!

So I decided to carry on with the background.

After about 20 minutes they closed the curtain to the arcade!

Plein air, French for outdoors, has it's own special challenges.

That's why I named this post:

Joie de peindre en plein air!

My friend Brenda Boylan who went on the trip too Cuba too

painted this same scene from the other side of the arcade.

It's so interesting to me to see different artist's

interpretation of the same place.

Check out her version here:

http://brendaboylan.com/

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