By the river

Posted on 30 de Jun de 2024 Posted in City, RiverTagged Analog, Black and White, Dancing, Film, Gathering, Music, People, photo, Public, River, Tagus, Water2 Comments

Saturday afternoon, South bank of the Tagus. People gather there to meet, eat and drink.

Some people prefer to be left alone. A moment of rest to settle ideas and feelings

Others choose to dance. A group of friends, or more probably an informal dancing class. They bring their own music and dance in pairs. One of them directs the others, giving instructions before each music sometimes correcting their movements. They seem to take this quite seriously – but they share and communicate a lot of joy.

Some people make and play their own music…

… while others sit and talk, probably about the good old times

Posted on 31 de Mar de 2024 Posted in Sem categoriaTagged Analog, Music1 Comment

This week-end , the Vinyl Market at Campo de Santa Clara, Lisbon. Good chance to find some good old 12’ LP records – and many memories. I found a few records I did not knew, and many others I had forgotten. Bad photo (made with a re-loaded disposable plastic camera).

A few findings. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Electric Ladyland” double LP (I had it forty years ago – someone stole it from me) and an album from Marianne Faithfull (I have a soft spot for her songs – she could have had a different life away from the shadow of Mick Jagger). Also a box with three LPs (Keith Jarret’s solo concerts in Bremen and in Lausanne). A fruitfull Saturday

A sketch from yesterday

Posted on 26 de Mar de 2024 Posted in Sem categoriaTagged Black and White, Drawing, Film, Music1 Comment

From last night a sketch of a female model (mangaka thin marker and light grey brush pencil)

And two more old photos from Lisbon.

Two musicians at the Campo de Santa Clara

And the chessboard we walk on at the Town Hall Square

Adufeira

Posted on 18 de Feb de 2024 Posted in Sketches, drawings, paintingsTagged Colour, Music, Oil, Painting, TraditionLeave a comment

The Adufe is a square-shaped membranophone, introduced to Portugal by the Arabs in the 8th and 9th centuries. It has a square wooden structure and is covered on both sides with tanned goatskin. Traditionally one of the faces is that of a male animal, the other that of a female animal (some say it sounds better that way !). In the corners there are decorations with colored ribbons.

It is played in a vertical position and struck with the fingers and hands. Inside there are grains, seeds or small stones that make a rattling noise when shaking the Adufe. It is an instrument usually played by women (“adufeiras”) and has a strong presence in the interior of central Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adufe

I used the old and very rough wooden structure of a small-sized adufe as a frame for a small painting (oil on plywood), as a memory of its origin.