Today I was grateful for the rain and to Jessica for letting me spend the morning in her beautiful place. As I sat down to paint this, thoughts of the Welsch painter Gwen John came rushing into my head. I haven't thought about her in
Raining again! It started raining as I was painting here this morning in one of my favorite squares in Florence, so this is today's result..I think that this is really a special piazza in Florence, and it is one of the few without cars, so
It may seem silly to paint these, but in thinking about it there is nothing silly about them. I mean, I went through so many bad pairs of these canvas pliers, that I found it easier to stretch canvas with my hands at a certain
Last year I saw this square in an earlier form (before traffic exsisted..) in a 19th-century painting in an exhibit here in Florence and it looked like a much more enjoyable place with wide gardens and the avenue. Now it is one of the many
Today's painting doesn't have much to do with Italy in particular, apart from the fact that most people eat citrus from Sicily all winter long. I've become addicted to grapefruits and even crave them. Today I didn't have as much enthusiasm for painting, I'll just
This morning while waiting for the bus, I was looking at this. I had the thought, "Wow, that would be great to paint," and then kept waiting for the bus. It then occurred to me that I had my easel and I am doing a
It's funny how I was sure that I would be painting scenes of Florence, but since I've arrived back in Florence I've mostly painted just things with personal meaning. Sure, a lot of that has to do with the fact that it is raining just
Today is my 33rd birthday, and I got really lucky, it was a beautiful, warm spring day! So I asked myself where I would like to be and paint today. The answer
I was sure it would be raining all day, but instead there were the most gorgeous enormous clouds plodding along and there was a break in the rain. I was out of Florence but found myself alongside the Arno (the river that runs east to