The third “Couples Dance” in the Amor series.
Author: Gary Kirkpatrick
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Couple Dances III
Couples Dance III A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.7″ acrylics on paper -
Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) III
The third and probably the final of this couple embracing, this one more shimmery than the others.
Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) III 35 cm x 29.7, 13″ x 11.7 Love takes many forms and we can always use more and can never have too much. We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.
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Couple Dances II
This addition to the Amor series explores again affection expressed in dance. The first version of the dancing couple relied upon contours and left the background starkly white. Here I’ve eliminated the outlining and given the background a stark treatment.
Couple Dances II, acrylics on high quality paper, A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.5″ -
Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) II
I continue the exploration of couples expressing affection. Here the image is the same as the first, but the treatment varies, and it is on paper versus wood, so the interaction between paint, medium a base offers additional variations.
Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) II 35 cm x 29.7, 13″ x 11.7 “My favorite is Enamorado con Amor II Couple in Love with Love. You can feel the intensity. Just beautiful.” Arlene
Love takes many forms and we can always use more and can never have too much. We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.
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Music Drawings and Paintings
Jazz Singer, acrylics on paper, A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.5″ 
In The Club, pen and ink, A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.5″ 
Banda de Valencia Dec 2015, pen and ink, A6, 2″ x 4″ -
Couple Dances
Couple Dances is the second in this series. This one explores the affection expressed in the dance of couples.
Couple Dances 1, A3, 16.5 x 11.5″ acrylics on paper -
Millie, Fly!
Millie, Fly! acrylics, A3, 11.5 x 16.5″ 
Rafa and the Corvette, acrylics, A3 11.5 x 16.5″ 
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Pareja: enamorado con amor — Couples: In Love with Love
Pareja: Enamorado Con Amor/ Couple: in love with love. Acrylics on panel, 22 x 31 cm. 8.5″ x 12| This is the first in the series exploring the expressions of affection. I was sitting in Parque Turia in Valencia as a couple across the lawn embraced before the 15th century bridge crossing what was then the main channel of the Turia River, since diverted and made into walking and bike paths as well as playing fields, and of course a meeting place for lovers and snugglers.
Love takes many forms. We can always use more, can never have too much, and should not oppress but encourage its flowering thus deepening the bonds that hold us together.
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¡Hola de Valencia! First drawing from Palau de la Musica
We are back in our favorite winter quarters, where the sky is always blue and the winter temperatures moderate, the street life vibrant, the food fresh and varied, and the people warm and friendly. It’s a place that brings smiles to our face the moment we look out the window or go out the door.
Bar Sant Jaume (Saint James), pen and ink The flight from Rome is normally quite beautiful. You might get a view of the Coliseo. You fly over Sardinia and then get a lovely view of Valencia. Not this flight. Weather has hit the entire Iberian Peninsula, and even Valencia is effected. Light rain greets us but still we shed the jackets and sweaters we were wearing to get to the airport in Rome.
We are staying in a new ‘piso.’ This one is near Plaza de Toros, much larger than our previous place, more expensive too, but better for the painter in the household. We will miss our view:
View from our old place in Plaza Cisneros pen and ink We go to the Palau de la Musica here most Sundays to listen to the symphonic bands, of which there are many in the province. The first Sunday we heard the Banda Municipal. I often do small pen and ink drawings as I listen. Here’s the flautist playing a piece by one of local composers:
Flautist Palau de la Musica 2″ x 4″
