I am very excited to announce this year's week long watercolor workshop this September 22 - 29 in one of my favorite places to paint in Italy, Orvieto. We will spend a week immersing ourselves in life in this small city while out painting its streets
I was asked to give a talk about painting specifically in watercolor and teaching in an upcoming symposium next month in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. Before the talk I needed to prepare a short essay that would be included in a publication of all of 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
Rainy Summer Morning, Umbria Oil on Linen Panel 11 x 14" $800 | Available Purchase Now This view! I had a day off teaching in Umbria last month and so the first thing I did was grab my gear and head down the valley to paint. As luck would have it,
What is the line between capturing something beautiful and it becoming sentimental? Is there one? Thanks to all the Anglo-Saxons who came before us spending their holidays and even entire lives in exotic Italy, there can be the tendency to romanticize life and capture only the most
Just the words "hay bale" surely strike up images of Monet and some of his haystacks, which are far more interesting with their house like shape then today's uniformly cylindrical things. Nonetheless these hay bales are always exciting to see, dotting the otherwise green fields back
Orvieto, one of Umbria's liveliest and prettiest hill towns is a joy to visit and an easy trip by train from Rome. I've spent a lot of time there recently and to have a day to paint here is always very fun and exciting. Via Vivaria, Orvieto Oil on
As an artist there is nothing more essential to our creativity and growth then to continually be learning, experimenting and exploring. But what is the best way to do this when by the nature of what we do is solitary? My answer to this question is
Orvieto is one of many gorgeous Umbrian hilltop towns. But I swear, Orvieto is different, special and lively. You can just feel it in the air. The people who live here take impeccable care of their city and it's not a big place, so everyone knows and