Marvelous Antique Watercolor of Two Peruvian "Tapada Limeña" Veiled Women with One Eye Exposed work on paper and especially for that red

and especially for that red brick house and those birds

it can be both at once

it weighs 2 lbs

" And even better still the pile of stones to the left of the tree in the photograph

which provide forms and shapes to reproduce using the tiles

Marvelous Antique Watercolor of Two Peruvian "Tapada Limeña" Veiled Women with One Eye Exposed work on paper and especially for that redThis watercolor wins the week for me, on a week when there are a number of things I am deeply in love with! So beautifully done (detail photos show how finely painted that radiant orange skirt, for example) and so mysterious feeling, with the empty, spare walled plaza giving me a de Chirico sort of mood. With a little research into the style of their veils, I've learned that these women are surely Peruvian tapada limea (meaning the covered one from