A gift  

   Dear Fran,

   the last two works I have done are these. Both ones are from the town of my friend Antonio and his wife Carmen, whom I have known for a long time; you could say that since I got here. With the first one, in which only a tower of the castle appears, I had a question: I also painted a clothesline with clothes that appeared on one of the rooftops in the photo or did without this detail and left only the walls and roofs without plus?

   In the first attempt I painted the hanging clothes, but when observing the painting from a social distance of two meters, something told me that it was not going, that the clothes did not say anything to the scene as a whole, so I rebuilt the piece and in a second and final attempt I got rid of the clothesline and left the whitewashed walls clean. In this decision I took into account the advice that Alberto Torres, an artist based in London, was kind enough to send me on WhatsApp. I did not consult my teacher because we had already finished the workshop.

La Puebla de Los Infantes (dedicated to my friend Antonio)

La Puebla de Los Infantes

   Instead, on my second canvas the thing went in one go. As the size is slightly larger than the previous one, I took the largest palette knife to make skies and towers and the small palette knife to enter the roofs and walls of the town. When my señora saw it, she liked this one more. I like the first one better.

   According to you, which one has fewer errors?

   Y. a.

   Mary