Antigua Windmill at the Museo del Queso Majero, Fuerteventura

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Antigua Windmill at
Museo del Queso Majero, Fuerteventura

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
PAPER: ARCHES COLD PRESSED 300 g/m²
COLORS: ROCKWELL CANADA watercolors

2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Els Canyers Calella de Palafrugel

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Els Canyers Calella de Palafrugel 

inside my travel sketchbook

SIZE: 14,8 x 21 cm

PAPER: BOESNER TRAVEL SKETCH BOOK  with Canson Paper 200g/m² hot pressed

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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““Sketching is like dancing. It’s a process as much as a product. You can turn your head off and simply dissolve into the present moment. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.”

- Molly Crabapple

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a corner at Llafranc

 

a corner at Llafranc

inside my travel sketchbook

SIZE: 14,8 x 21 cm

PAPER: BOESNER TRAVEL SKETCH BOOK  with Canson Paper 200g/m² hot pressed

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” 

-Ray Bradbury

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Mediterranean Essence - Calella de Palafrugell

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Mediterranean Essence -

Calella de Palafrugell 

SIZE: 20 cm x 20 cm - 5,5" x 5,5"

PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND CLAYBORD cradled 22 mm PRIMED WITH QOR WATERCOLOR GROUND

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH and WINSOR & NEWTON watercolors

2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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This marvelous ancient fishing village is one of the most attractive places at the Costa Brava and I've lost my heart at first glance. 

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Llafranc - the splash 2

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Llafranc - the splash 2

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)

PAPER: ARCHES ROUGH 300 g/m²

2017/23 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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The day after our excursion to Llafranc during the Workshop Endre Penovác 2017 created a very funny splash painting day for his master class and this is my reworked 2nd result. 

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Besalú, Catalunya

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Besalú, Catalunya

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD ROUGH 425 g/m²

COLORS:  DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

 

 

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  Inspired by a gorgeous workshop with Joseph Zbukvic in September 20218 and thousand photographies taken our impressive day at Besalú.

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Fuerteventura Sundown

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Fuerteventura Sundown 

SIZE:  16 in. x 12 in. - 41 x 31 cm 

PAPER: DALER ROWNEY - THE LANGTON cold pressed 425 g/m²

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Inspired by Blanca Álvarez Sanches Art School. One more wet-in-wet exercise, it's so hard to do for me. 

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Spanish Memories

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Spanish Memories

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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 Inspired by our wonderful Fuerteventura holidays, and my newest patreon teacher Blanca Álvarez Sanchez. 

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Atardecer S'Algar - Sunset at S'Algar

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Atardecer S'Algar 

Sunset at S'Algar

SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS 

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Done after my own photography taken during our last stay at Menorca, Balearic islands - Catalunya, Spain. It was such an incredibly peaceful and atmospheric evening. Yes, painting sundowns is always a bit critical, but something inside me said, give it a try and here it is.

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Portrait of Aina

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Portrait of Aina

SIZE: 12,7 cm x 12,7 cm - 5" x 5"

PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND AQUABORD 3 mm

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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 My submission for  #53 FAVORITE OF 2021 Challenge at @aligator_watercolor_community.

This submission included a lot of favorites, first: it is inspired by my favorite portrait painting master Ali Cavanaugh, second: it's painted on Aquarbord. A surface that I love a lot. And 3. painted with the layering technique, adding very soft layers to build up a semirealistic portrait 

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Sunset Road Fuerteventura

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Sunset Road Fuerteventura

SIZE: 14,2 in. x 18,9 in. - 36 x 48 cm 
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE TURNER 300 g/m²

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Wild West Coast Island Fuerteventura

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Wild West Coast Fuerteventura

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD ROUGH 425 g/m²

2021© ISABELLA KRAMER

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can't say how much I miss being at the sea... 

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Ermita de San Roque, Fuerteventura

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 Ermita de san Roque, Fuerteventura

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 300 g/m²

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Finally, I have free time enough to start with larger paintings again and so I have chosen a wonderful Fuerteventura memory. 

Cadaqués

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CADAQUÉS

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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While painting this lovely landscape I dive deep into my memories. Visiting Cadaqués 2017 for the first time and falling in love was one! This remarkable place where Dali spent most time of his life from 1930 to 1982, has so much beauty and the whole coastline is a paradise for painters. So I must come back, that's sure! 

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Dreaming allowed - Calella de Palafrugell

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DREAMING ALLOWED - CALELLA DE PALAFRUGELL

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD 425 g/m²

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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That's my contribution to the APRIL painting challenge at FB Watercolor Art on Paper group. 
This month's theme was a seaside view that I have taken at Calella de Palafrugell during a watercolor workshop at Girona.  

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Cala d'Alcaufar - Menorca

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CALA D'ALCAUFAR - MENORCA

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Menorca is for sure one of the islands we love most in the Mediterranean Sea and it's our dream that we could live there if we're retired for several months every year. In the last years, we've spent there some beautiful holidays and so you can be sure, that more watercolors of this gorgeous place will follow. 



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Southern Corners - Girona

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SOUTHERN CORNERS - GIRONA

inside my travel sketch book

SIZE: 14,8 x 42 cm 

PAPER: CLAIREFONTAINE TRAVEL SKETCH BOOK  170g/m² hot pressed

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2018-19 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Today I've worked a little bit MORE with my travel sketch book. This scene above was only a pencil sketch done during the Watercolor Workshop with Joseph Zbukvic, organized by EPC Art Courses, Angela Barbi in September 2018 and done during on of our lunch breaks. For many reasons I couldn't stop painting during this time and so I uses every single moment to catch up this very special atmosphere of this marvelous city. Today I've tried with some loose color splashes bring it to life. I hope you enjoy my small series of SOUTHERN CORNERS. I've created a similar at my photo blog -> SOUTHERN CORNERS

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Southern Corners - Besalú

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SOUTHERN CORNERS - BESALÚ

inside my travel sketch book

SIZE: 14,8 x 42 cm 

PAPER: CLAIREFONTAINE TRAVEL SKETCH BOOK  170g/m² hot pressed

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2018-19 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Today I've worked a little bit with my travel sketch book. This scene above was only a pencil sketch done during the Watercolor Workshop with Joseph Zbukvic, organized by EPC Art Courses, Angela Barbi in September 2018. Included in this puristic sketch are a lot of memories and so I've tried to give them life in this colored version of the sketch. It was a very hot afternoon at this day and I sat side by side with a good new friend under a sun umbrella and we both sketch this corner on the Placa del Prat de Sant Pere, Besalú while drinking a very tasty café cortado. 

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Disfruta el verano

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DISFRUTA EL VERANO (enjoy the summer)

CALELLA DE PALAFRUGELL

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²

2019 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Ajuy - Fuerteventura

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Ajuy - Fuerteventura

SIZE: 13,7 in. x 11,8 in. - 35 x 30 cm 
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE TURNER 300 g/m²

2019 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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