Sunset, San Fedele8x10"Oil on Paper© Kelly Medford, 2011 I just love painting skies, what landscape painter doesn't? Don't you have a favorite big sky painting by your favorite artist? They're fleeting, gorgeous and we just have to jump out of our cars sometimes, prepared to "jot" something
Piazza delle Scuole, Radda in Chianti9x11"Oil on Linen© 2011, the artistI've been away painting in Tuscany with painters Mark Horton and Chris Groves from Charleston, SC who led a group of painters to the most magical monastery in Chianti. I had the opportunity to jump
Via Cibele, Quadraro10x12"Oil on Panel© Kelly Medford, 2011This neighborhood, quadraro, or better known as "the wasps' nest" is one of my favorites in Rome. It's one of my favorites because of the small, brightly colored houses, each with its own garden. It got its name
Under the Bridge, Lungotevere Oil on Panel 8x10" SOLD This turned out to be a Monet inspired painting, without my really having that intention. Of course I love Monet and I have no pretentions of being anywhere the painter that he was. This landscape though is not exactly that
Il Manicomio della Provincia, Padiglione XVIIIOil on Panel10x12"© Kelly Medford, 2o11While this place may be well known to Romans, I happened upon it by chance, or luck as the case may be. Intending to go somewhere else to paint, but unable to find the correct
Morning Nap, Villa Glori. 8x10", oil on panelThe name can be misleading here, as there really is no villa to be found in the park of Villa Glori. There is however an enormous and wild park, lined with trees and dotted with columns, monuments and
Porta Maggiore, sketch. Oil on panel, 8x10"This place, Porta Maggiore, is hugely impressive when you come upon it, usually in the midst of congested traffic. Once a Roman gate, it is now a busy intersection where buses, trains, trams, cars, pedestrians and mopeds all cross
An interview with yours truly by Cindy Michaud about my escapades city-scaping in Rome.This is republished from her blog Cindy Michaud ArtPlenty of Plein Air Kelly Medford on Plein Air painting….. Today’s guest is Kelly Medford, a new friend and a “plein air” painter who currently
Piazza Mastai, oil on panel, 10x8"Trastevere, everyone loves this part of town! It's old with the little shops and winding streets, places where vines grow up through the cracks and sprawls over windows. There are little old ladies hanging out their laundry and old men