San Antonio and Austin

[The_Colonel]

I spent alot of time in Texas and love it there.
Spent five years as an actor in San Antonio as an actor and lived there for a year.
If you like painting landscape scenes and old structures such as Spanish Architechture, this is the place!
One thing I want to do, before it falls apart, is go to Dripping Springs, Tx., about 25 miles or so west of Austin, and to the movie set of the new Disney film, "The Alamo".
While the movie will be very questionable as far as accuracy is concerned, the movie set is not.
Very well done and the largest ever built on the North American continent.
Talk about a place to wander in and paint!!!!!
I have seen several photos and artists can go nuts in there with their cameras and canvases.
I'd probably take a camera myself and maybe a sketchbook.
But the set is an amazing wonderland of old structures with alot of ideas for artists to interpret.
The San Antonio townsite is fantastic. The Alamo compound looks great too. They goofed up on the chapel a bit, but that can be straightened out in our works.
So if anybody goes down there on an artist's journey to take alot of pics for future paintings, I'd love to hear about it.
The set is huge and covers 52 acres ore so. So put on your walking shoes!

[The_Colonel]

And another thing, during the week of March 6th, there will probably be living history reenactors walking around in full regalia to give you more to paint and sketch or just photograph.
Lost of living history in San Antone that week and they'll probably head up to Austin to the new set after the acting is over.
So this will be a great opportunity for obtaining more subject matter for your art. :clap:



I spent alot of time in Texas and love it there.
Spent five years as an actor in San Antonio as an actor and lived there for a year.
If you like painting landscape scenes and old structures such as Spanish Architechture, this is the place!
One thing I want to do, before it falls apart, is go to Dripping Springs, Tx., about 25 miles or so west of Austin, and to the movie set of the new Disney film, "The Alamo".
While the movie will be very questionable as far as accuracy is concerned, the movie set is not.
Very well done and the largest ever built on the North American continent.
Talk about a place to wander in and paint!!!!!
I have seen several photos and artists can go nuts in there with their cameras and canvases.
I'd probably take a camera myself and maybe a sketchbook.
But the set is an amazing wonderland of old structures with alot of ideas for artists to interpret.
The San Antonio townsite is fantastic. The Alamo compound looks great too. They goofed up on the chapel a bit, but that can be straightened out in our works.
So if anybody goes down there on an artist's journey to take alot of pics for future paintings, I'd love to hear about it.
The set is huge and covers 52 acres ore so. So put on your walking shoes!