These two new art pieces from this week are very different, but both styles I enjoy doing.

First, my latest work from my Fileteado Porteño class. Traditionally, all Fileteado paintings, even the most complex ones, always have some kind of representation of the Argentine flag, or at least the colours in ribbon form. For my exercise over the last two lessons I chose to give it a try. It’s very complicated, and there’s a lot of light and shade work, which is what gives it the three-dimensional look. This one looks pretty good from a distance, but it’s not perfect. My teacher has set me homework to draw another one on the same sheet and paint it at next week’s class.

After I finished my tango lesson this morning, I walked up to the Plaza Congreso to look for something to sketch, and I found this. It’s a very old cafe/confiteria called El Molino, and it has been closed for years. They have been renovating it and taking it back to is original look for ages, but apparently it’s almost ready to reopen — we are all waiting with baited breath.

Anyway, today is July 9, Independence Day, and El Molino was showing the colours with this long, long bunting flag over its front door. Kind of a funky little sketch for a winter day.

Tomorrow I’m going with a couple of friends to a very special market I’ve never been to before, and I’m hoping there will be something for me to sketch there. Fingers crossed.