Caro Rose Studio Art

Caro Rose, Painter, making el Viejo San Juan 2; photo by Caro Rose Here we have Caro Rose, artist, painting a tropical landscape art  in progress,  Touring el Viejo San Juan 2 for the audience. She says one of the most fun parts of creating the painting is using the leftover amounts of acrylic paints on her palette.  "I had a lot of leftover red on my palette," says Rose. "I thought I should make something else to not waste anything!" So she gathered the rest of the red and blues on her palette from painting  Touring el Viejo San Juan 1  to try to match the colors as best as she could. It was a challenging feat without a doubt because she didn't know where to begin with all the red she had left. She felt that she made a lot of mistakes along the way. She says she is not too happy with the outcome of the clouds as she used red to accidentally mix in the puffy apparitions. She scrambled to see what she could do go fix the dilemma but ended up staying...

The stories about Peurto Rico on this blog are not meant to offend anyone. They are simply just memories made by a college student who was invited to spend some time within the family. We recognize that the Island of Puerto Rico was never left the same after it met Hurricane Maria and the memories made before the incident are only meant to keep its culture and spirit alive in this time of tragedy as we wait for the world to heal. We all want to reminisce about our travel experiences and hopefully spending some time remembering will liven our spirits to see better days abroad ahead.  In Spring Break of 2016, Caro Rose's aunt took her to visit el Viejo San Juan, a historic part of the San Juan area to eat finger foods on the street and visit the bird park nearby. While they were out, Rose recalled that a family friend from back home in Florida wanted a picture of the residence where he was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. So while we searched the streets for the address, Caro...