If you have been to Italy, I think that you will probably agree that the single best thing (besides the food of course) about visiting is happening upon little hilltop towns. They are all charming, one after the other, and there is no end to them.
Rome has many magical moments and one of them is the sunset in this city. Almost every evening the sunset is a spectacle, so orange or pink, lighting the already colorful buildings and reflecting in the water along the Tiber river. The evening or very early
California sure knows how to enchant painters and has been doing so for centuries. I was very lucky to be invited to paint with local painter Tim Horn in this town, population 96, one morning last month. There are so many views here, all too picturesque to
I love to paint places- buildings, streets, squares, houses and their surroundings. I also am enamored with the play of light and shadow and buildings are the perfect medium to lend themselves to exploring this infinite subject. The Old Train Depot, Santa Clara Oil on Linen Panel 11
Summer at the Aqueducts, Rome Oil on Arches Paper 9 x 12" $200 | Available Purchase Now This place, one that I return to over and over again, is one of Rome's magical places where time stands still. The light is different each time I visit and always offers something
Maybe you think of my work as bright and bold- I am in love with the high contrast of Italian light and shadow after all. But since we've had a moody fall I took advantage of this quieter light to get out and paint. This industrial
There is a place that I return to over and over again, that is Rome's aqueduct park or Parco degli Acquedotti. This is a theme and place that has been painted through the centuries and really it has not changed drastically over time. One can
I had the opportunity to teach with the Urban Sketchers last week on the island of Ischia, specifically we were hosted by the family who owns the Aragonese Castle. This place is straight out of a fairytale and the spot that captured my attention the
For the past year I have been using watercolor as a new medium with a different approach and way of working from my oil paintings. I travel a lot and sometimes it just is not practical for me to take my oil paints along, so watercolor