Painter
Quite some time has past since I’ve been to the centre with my oil paints. I’ve been looking at other places when choosing a place to work. I’ve been thinking that painting in the centre of Rome in some way gives too much of an advantage to a painter; it really is difficult NOT to …
Paris is especially beautiful in the spring. I was in Paris in October 2013 and returned on the Spring equinox in 2014. By chance, both dates coincided with the change in Daylight Savings Time, yet the spring was particularly impressive. In a two-week period, I saw bare trees generate foliage almost too full to see …
I have been painting in no man’s land. There are parts of Rome that haven’t been developed and are somewhere between a natural reserve and a garbage dump. These lands have little or no buildings and are usually surrounded by old fences which have been broken and serve little to keep people from trespassing. In …
Giornata internazionale della donna Something bothers me. When I go outside and try to enjoy the outdoors, even if I live in a city, I want to witness something of nature. Maybe a bird singing in a tree attracts my gaze. In the spring, the budding of the flowers of a tree or the changing …
My wife and I were asking each other ‘Why is there so much bad painting around, why there are so many people who paint and why there is so little demand for quality painting today?’ Is there something that unites these three themes? Once upon a time, there were the Arts and there were the …
I am attracted to places where I can breath and see something in the distance. Sometimes a faraway mountain of a high tower can catch my eye and give me the stimulus to paint. I was attracted to a busy intersection in the Talenti district with a curious uphill view of a curving street. It …
Quite a lot of time has passed since I added a painting to my website. I’ve been very busy with a big book project that I started after I returned from Paris in November. I have finished the mock-up and will publish it soon. Working with photography has given me a certain freedom to experiment …
On Friday, I checked various Internet weather stations for the next day’s forecast. The consensus was about 20% rain. I don’t totally understand this bit of information but I can reason that either it will rain for 20% of the day or that there is an 80% chance that thee won’t be any rain. In …
I had a long weekend because All Saint’s Day was on Friday this year. So I was able to do different paintings on two different days: Friday and Saturday. It was a special treat because the weather in Rome has been gorgeous; warm, dry and calm. Italy went back to Standard Daylight Time so I …
Even though I didn’t have my car, I decided to paint this morning given the free time. I strapped my paint box to a trolley and started out for a nearby hill overlooking some pasture area near the railway station. The road goes past a rather unimpressive but quietly contemplative green valley. The only problem …