Paintings of France, Italy and Beyond

I’m not sure if this painting is finished yet, but I feel like I’ve been looking at it for so long that I can’t see it any more. Time to get it off of my easel for a while and work on something else! This is one of two Lake Como paintings I started working on side-by-side:

 
“Lakeside Chalet”
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″

 I eventually left off of this method and focused on one painting at a time. I think working back and forth might be okay if I have one small painting and one large, but with two big ones it was getting me nowhere fast.

We’ve had some gloomy weather this week and between that and the wet glare of this painting I’m having a hard time getting a good photograph. Once I reshoot it in better conditions I’ll upload it to my website  (Update: Sunshine today! Image reshot). Meanwhile, please contact me for more info about this piece.

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Today I have a new offering up for auction to benefit the Central Virginia Foodbank. This is another watercolor/pen and ink painting of the golden sunflowers of Tuscany:

“Golden Days”
Watercolor/Pen & Ink on Arches Paper
7×10″ (Image size 5×7″)

This painting has sold, but you can see the current auction by clicking here.

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My schedule has been NUTS lately so unfortunately my blog has suffered a bit of benign neglect. Still alive and kicking and painting, however. Here’s something I thought I’d try to see if I might be able to save a little money on paint. A lot of times when I paint I can mix too much color, (which I still think is far better than mixing too little).

These mixtures can be reused of course, especially if the subsequent painting needs similar hues. But I’m not always good about consciously planning my subjects like that. So here’s a conscious effort to get two paintings going at the same time with color mixtures that relate to each other:

 The key will be not to just lazily use what’s already mixed if it doesn’t really suit what I’m painting. In hindsight it might have been better to start one large painting and one small painting instead of two rather ambitiously sized pieces, (they are both 30×40″.) But I guess I was feeling cocky when I started these! 

While I did the transparent color block-ins  one after the other, what is happening  as I proceed is that I am still focusing on one individually, with an occasional switch-off when I need a change.  I don’t really know if I’m conserving much paint, but it does keep things interesting. In case you can’t tell what these are, the subject matter for both pieces is Lake Como, Italy. The painting on the left will be a more fleshed out version of the little watercolor painting I did for my last charity auction.

Speaking of which, a new Art for Food Auction will be posted by tomorrow morning!

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The “Art for Food” charity art auctions continue! This 7-day auction is for a landscape painting of a little chapel and mountainside chalet overlooking a small fishing harbor on Italy’s lovely Lake Como. The Mediterranean trees and buildings are set against a dramatic backdrop of the Pre-Alps, making this one of the most stunning destinations in Italy.

“Mountain Chalet”
Watercolor & Ink, 8×10″

According to the Central Virginia FoodBank, $25 could provide as many as 200 meals. So, with that in mind, opening bids for these auctions are set at the mega-bargain price of about 200 meals or $24.99 per item! 95% of the proceeds for these auctions will be donated to the CVFB.

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Last week was like the black hole of productivity for me. Let’s see…

1. Our plumbing conked out, which meant we had to get our pipes replaced by way of a now huge hole in our guest bedroom where the ceiling used to be.
2. We discovered the starter on our car died after we came out of the grocery store with arms full of groceries.
3. My internet connection has been refusing to cooperate (fingers crossed for this post.)
4. I have what I *hope* is not turning into bronchitis!

Still I did manage to eek out this painting, which brings to mind the lovingly tended gardens of Tuscany. Ah, la dolce vita. Life is, after all, on the whole very sweet.

“Wall Flowers, Pienza”
Oil on Canvas, 24″x20″
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