Tag: traditional

A fierce cavalier from a Fantasia - the traditional horsemanship & art of combat festival held during certain celebrations in the countries of the Maghreb. Oils on stretched canvas, 30x40 cm.

Fantasia festival

A fierce cavalier from a Fantasia – the traditional horsemanship & art of combat festival held during certain celebrations in the countries of the Maghreb.Oils on stretched canvas, 30×40 cm.

Romanian traditional thatched house, exhibit from the Village Museum "Astra" from Sibiu, Romania. Pen and ink sketch.

Romanian traditional thatched house

Romanian traditional thatched house, now on display at the Village Museum “Astra” in Sibiu, Romania Pen & ink drawing in my sketchbook

Palace from the Kasbah of Algiers (La Casbah d'Alger)- architecture detail. Ink and wash in my sketchbook

La Casbah d’Alger

I am starting a series of sketches on the Kasbah of Algiers (La Casbah d’Alger), an UNESCO World Heritage Site. There will be studies based on my own photos and on photos from the internet, with the purpose of allowing me to get familiar with the traditional architecture of the […]

The thatched house - pen and ink sketch

The thatched house

A rural landscape, with a traditional thatched house surrounded by trees, with a wooden fence and a dirt road passing nearby. Pen and ink sketch, 33 x 22.5 cm.

Hay stacking, a traditional end-of-summer activity. Oils on canvas, 21x28 cm

Hay stacking

This is a typical scene of a traditional end-of-summer activity in the rural zones at home. Hay stacking brings back childhood memories, the clear sky, the beautiful scent of the dried grass, the fresh air, the buzz of insects and a perfect peace impossible to find today. Oils on canvas, […]

A vintage Dutch washerwoman. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x50 cm. Every day scenes by Manu Fine Art

A vintage washerwoman

A vintage Dutch washerwoman, painted after this preliminary sketch. Now she is depicted in her backyard, on a cobbled area, with her zinc washing tub and her manual wringing machine, her cans and her ladles. She has been busy, the clothes she has already done are hung on several clotheslines […]

Vintage Dutch washerwoman, a preliminary sketch for an oil painting. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4

Washerwoman sketch

Preliminary sketch of a Dutch washerwoman in traditional clothes, for a future oil painting. She is doing manual laundry washing in a zinc tub, surrounded with clear water cans. A manual wringing machine is placed before her. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4.