A quick post to invite you to an exhibition of Roman cityscapes and landscapes opening in Rome this Friday. Roma Itinerari d’AmorePaintings, Sketchbooks and Photography Studio-9 Vicolo della Moretta, 9 - Rome Kelly Medford Giovanni Ragone Olha PryymakCaterina Rosa Maria Iollo Pietro Simonelli Exhibition Open
This is the end of a season, the season of painting competitions. I'll miss them. They give me the adrenaline and push to conceive and create a large painting in a short time. I'm also convinced that they make me paint better with the competition
This place is why I love living and painting in Rome. Here the ancient Roman aqueducts line up one next to the other and run through the open fields like silent towering giants in the landscape.Yesterday I took a bet on the rain holding off
Have you ever taken a stroll down the restored ancient road just outside of Rome called the Appia Antica? It's enchanting. Now that summer is here, the light is bright and clear just as a painter would have it. The towering pines and cypress trees
I'm entitling this blog post this way to give myself the opportunity to talk about something in my work (and I imagine in many other painters as well), that really nags at me sometimes: the level of finish in a painting.I seem to have this "problem",
If you haven't already noticed, I just love anything off-the-beaten-path, whether it be in Rome or wherever I go. I'm one of those gals who always roots for the underdog and likes to try something different and explore around the next corner. That's why Rome
Late Afternoon, The Roman Forum25x30 cmOil on Linen© Kelly Medford, 2012What a complete joy it was creating these 2 paintings on commission! It's taken me much longer than I had anticipated to finish them and I realized that I could have gone on indefinitely, always
These past few weeks I've been working away on a pair of paintings, commissions for some fun collectors who have just bought a home and wanted to remember their time in Rome with a pair of paintings.Working together every step of the way on the
Looking Through Ponte Cestio, Tiber Island6x8"Oil on Panel© Kelly Medford, 2012While out working on a commission, I decided to have a little walk and enjoy the afternoon sun. I walked down to the infamous Tiber Island, an island in the middle of Rome's Tiber river.