La Sua Maestà La Rosa - Villa Fidelia

Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9, 2013 at Villa Fidelia, Spello, my photographs in a collective show at the lovely Limonaia. Here, a detail of a photograph.

A tiny little pencil drawing: Mila Meter

Just had a few inches of paper in front of me, and out came this tiny little pencil drawing: Mila Meter.
Fun to sit and draw, without knowing what will come up.

Scratchboard

A technique I enjoyed as a student in highschool, still a very interesting technique.
A special board covered with ink and then scratched into, achieving fine lines that define the image.
Here, after many years, three tiny drawings.

Little watercolours

Fun to do quick "sketches", color upon color, bright lively little ladies like these I did today with a good set of block watercolors on a small pad of paper.

Paintings, photography

Sometimes a painting inspires one to take photographs, and sometimes a photograph may serve as inspiration for a painting.
Here, a photograph of my dear friend, that I developed in black and white, served to then create my own color scheme in an acrylic painting on canvas paper. "Claudia", 16"x20", acrylic on paper.

First oil painting since I was 15 years old

I have been painting with acrylic paints for years.
When I was only 13 I was given a set of oil paints from my grandfather. I used them for a while and then, after working in an art store at 17 years old, I bought acrylics. This is what I used for many years.
Just today, after many years, I had the pleasure to paint with a new painter friend. We used oils.
This is the first oil painting I have done is many many years. At first I was a bit shy with this new medium, but after a while I see the difference of painting with oils, and believe I just may continue with them!

Painting how you are feeling

Just did this painting yesterday, Woman and Child, acrylic on paper, 16"x20". Never before in my life have I realized how much I am painting how I am feeling. And what I am feeling is the need for relaxation, calm, and doing two of the activities I love, swimming and walking.
I like to express calmness in artwork, things that relax me and others. I had taken a series of photographs at a swimming pool here, of parents with their babies in the water. It was like entering into a very personal intimacy with them, I almost felt like I shouldn't even be there with them. But they kindly let me photograph them, and I enjoyed it immensely.
This is a painting I completed in a short time yesterday, after working on a painting that took me weeks to finish, I felt the urge to just let myself relax with colors and shapes, and while doing it I was relaxing too.