A few creations …alcune creazioni

Jane’s birthday in mid August..what to give her? an image of her pergola ..and Leo

walking along the road I picked up and collected pieces of broken tiles ..

 

Out of the heart of darkness came the snow

I painted this even as the snow washed some of it away..a tiny watercolor.

Questo non c’è più..this one is gone…..

The beautiful elm tree was my reason for doing this painting….and then the rest..oil on canvas 45cm x 60 cm..L’olmo bello grande era il motivo dietro questo dipinto..e poi tutto il resto…olio su tela……autunno 2011….Part of the Palagina exhibition it was sold to a good family….Faceva parte della mostra alla Palagina, è stato venduto a persone meritvoli..

Paintings in the Exhibition…a few of them…Alcuni dei quadri esibiti a Villa La Palagina

A quick watercolor sketch from my studio of the road winding through the hills towards Greve…..un bozzetto i acquarello della strada Grevigiana vista dallo studio mio…..Ponte agi Stolli

A small..22cm x 40m…winter painting of the old farmhouse with the Pratomagno mountains beyond..un piccolo bozzetto del podere con dietro le montgne di Pratomagno sopra Valdarno..inverno..2012

Comings and Goings……65 cm x 125…oil on canvas/ olio su tela…11/2011….

Details..Particolari

oil on wood panel ..68cm x 98 cm hexagon..portrait of Andrea

I’m sorry these are slightly out of focus…my eyes are not what they were even with glasses….after years of “au plein air” painting….

The full image…these colors are not quite true …and it is an elongated octogon….l’imagine completo un’esogono allungato…

Lo sviluppo di uno dei miei quadri…the development of one of my paintings

primo stadio di lavoro dopo 5 +/- di lavoro..first stage after 5 hours of work..early March..l’inizio di marzo

Secondo stadio fotografato dopo qualche settimana..quasi tutti elimenti ci sono…second stage after a few weeks of work ..almost all elements of the painting are down

Almost the end stage..quasi la fine….as time has passed the light and the colors have changed..con il passaggio del tempo i colori e la luce sono cambiati …fine marzo..the end of March

Il Podere Abbandonato…The Abandoned Farm

Slightly out of focus picture of my pastel of an empty country house and barn behind the Palagina, here above the Arno valley.. Soft and hard pastels on Fabriano paper.

Dragon Days

Villa La Palagina seen from the Via Grevigiana : a huge field of colza in bloom ( colza is a turnip used for vegetable oil). Mixed media: watercolor and pastel, on Fabriano rag paper, 56cm x 77cm, c. 22″ x 30.5″ ….  a favorite subject for photographers on the road !

The Woods/ Il Bosco

Early Spring in Pear Tree Valley, Tuscany