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I wish I could have actually done this sketch in person along the Malecon waterfront in Puerto Vallarta but there was no time alloted for outdoor sketching in my workshop. I noticed several different people selling both corn on the cob and corn kernels in plastic cups that they barbecue on site (the corn not the cups).
I wanted to do a small watercolor in my sketchbook since my painting time lately has been spent working with oil paints and acrylics. When I went to look through my Puerto Vallarta photos for something to paint I discovered most of them were missing. I’d done some nifty photo organizing the other day, sorting everything, trying to back up onto DVDs (but it kept eating the DVDs so I gave up and copied files from my PC to my laptop). Somehow I’d deleted half of the folders I’d sorted, thinking I was deleting extra copies from my laptop. Without going into lots more detail about how this stupidity occured, I’ll just say that I went through all the steps of the grieving process: anger, denial, bargaining etc., through to acceptance and then oh so gratefully, found a folder on my laptop that had the files!!

7 replies on “Puerto Vallarta Corn Snacks”
Jana, this is so lovely, soft and full of life. Love the sea behind her and the wonderful colors.
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Jana this is lovely. You’ve brought back memorys of when I was there a few years ago.
As much as I love my computer… ok, that statement was a little over the top… it is the most frustrating thing I own. I have a friend who swears they are alive and very revengeful, *wink*…. I tend to agree at times.
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You really seem to have caught the mood of a sea side place. what a shame you didn’t have another week after your workshop to hang about and sketch.
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Oh how I wish I could live near the sea…
You really got this summer and sea feeling here.
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very nice! yay for memory and photos to recreate in illustration what we want to sketch from life but can’t, wonderful combination of colors, you’ve got the summer vacation feel perfectly!
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oh you’ve caught the light beautifully. I can feel the sun/beachy feel of it.
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That looks nicer than NJ in March π¦
Great painting.
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