An Unexpected View
This was an unexpected little painting that I am happy with the result.
I say unexpected because I left the house having no idea what I would paint today, I just started walking.
La Toretta, Villini
Oil on Linen Panel
7 x 5″
SOLD
The funny thing about this street is I have painted at this intersection before, but looking the opposite way. The people living on this street loved stopping to chat and to ask me what I was doing.
While painting this other view an old man stopped to contemplate the subject matter I had chosen. After having silently thought about it for several minutes he told me that he thought that I should really have been painting “la torretta” or this little tower at the end of the road.
Honestly I had always thought this street with the torretta a relatively boring view and did not see why he thought that I should have painted it.
But today the light was special. It was a soft diffused light with the sun coming in and out from behind the clouds and the sky was yellow. Yellow.
Locals love to call this part of town “antique”, which I find an odd term for a Roman to use since it was built in the 1920s. Understandably though they take great pride in their neighborhood since the King of Italy came specifically to inaugurate it.
But that is a story for another time. I promise to tell it with the next painting from this hidden gem of a neighborhood called Villini.