Today is my last day in Florence, tomorrow I'll be flying back to Florida. This gave me a lot to think about as I was riding around on my bike this morning searching for my spot to paint. I was thinking that I somehow needed
Day 79: Morning Still Life in the StudioThis morning I set out to paint a still life. At a certain point I wiped the whole thing down, it was missing something and I wasn't really very inspired by it. I decided to clean my paints
I thought that I would try something a little different today to mix it up. This is a copy of a painting done by an Italian impressionist named Cabianca. I've copied paintings in the past with varying levels of success, but have always learned huge
Today I'm in the countryside and got lucky because my friends are letting me use their computer after a huge lunch and a lovely walk in the woods, who could ask for anything more?!This was painted in a field near the Arno river
Today was truly the most gorgeous day! I got lucky and had painting company today of 2 painters visiting from Charleston. We caught the bus up here, had a picnic and then they went to work. I wasn't really as diligent as they were though.
I've actually painted here before. This is one of the places that I'm obsessed with and don't think I could ever get tired of paitning. It's a place way out of town along the Arno river. There's a bike path all the way and it
What had me make this painting were the strips of light on the floor, without that light it just would have seemed overwhelming painting all those shelves of books. The light on the floor is what made painting all those books worth it for me
Yesterday I was at a museum about the history of Florence and I saw a whole series of drawings and paintings done inside the narrow winding streets of the old center before it was partially destroyed and rearranged. I got really inspired and excited by
Something about the simplicity of this scene is what made me want to paint it. Originally there were tons of little objects, details, etc. in this composition, but as I painted I just eliminated them finding something more interesting about the lack of detail than