Showing posts with label La Paz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Paz. Show all posts

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Bolivia Bug

I believe South America in general is very under-rated. I've never traveled there, but so many places in this continent fascinate me. Bolivia is a country that most don't pay enough attention to. It is landlocked, but has so many places that are interesting. Ametrine is mined there-a natural occurence of Amethyst and Citrine! Salt flats, and Lake Titicaca (what a fun word)! La Paz is a city in Bolivia, and has it's own interesting facts (dead llama fetuses offered in the city, and a town square clock that runs backwards??). This small canvas board photo is a modified replica of a lonely street in La Paz with a VW beetle parked. I added my touch of South American colors to it in gouache. I hope to visit some beautiful places in South America someday.

Noble Stag

Recently, I discovered that I have ancestry from Scotland of the Campbell clan. The particular relative was  from the Highlands and resided ...