Today I went to Tuscany for the day to participate in a small town painting competition in a village near Florence called Marcialla.I almost can't believe it but this is the 6th year in a row that I've gone to paint in this little town
This will be my last painting from Tuscany for a bit and I'm feeling a little nostalgic about it.It's been almost 2 years since I moved to Rome and switched palette and landscape, so to go back was to see these old familiar places through
As in all relationships, sometimes things get a little complicated.I'm just being silly, sort of, but what I mean to say is that today, well, I really didn't feel like painting. I felt tired and like taking it easy or hanging out with friends, or
Now I can't keep cool, even the shade is getting hot here in Florence. That's why we got up early and didn't go far to paint, just the garden here at the house where we are staying.Hot Morning Sun in the Garden, Florence6x8"Oil on PanelOur
Today I'm painting in Tuscany with a friend and great painter Lisa Egeli. It's great to be back on my old turf, painting here after having been in Rome for the last year and a half. The light is unique here, it has a bluish
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