City Olive

City Olive

City Olive, 10×8″, oil on panelEven in the dirtiest park one can find a lovely olive tree. I happen to love this park, it’s in my neighborhood and it is where one of the old Roman acquaducts runs (which I just found out was still in use until the 1970’s). I seem to be a bit of a homebody, only in the sense that I have the huge, amazing, gorgeous city of Rome, but I go to the park to paint this little olive tree. I like this tree, and even more I liked the pink and blue with the green, the tree in its abstract city surroundings and the juxtaposition of it all.Why not paint a single tree? As we know, Rome wasn’t built in a day (or even a lifetime for that matter…) To buy this painting or to see others from the When in Rome project, click here