FRANCE AND ITALY
The European countries I've visited offer many different landscapes and architecture.
View to Villars
oil on canvas, 9x12, plein air.
Venice Night
11x14, oil on canvas. St Mark's Basilica, from the Grand Canal. Based on photograph I took while on a boat in the canal.
Tuscan Farmland, 9x12
It rained one day of our 2 week trip. That day, we went to the market anyway, and walked around Fivizzano. This farm view was visible from the entrance to the village.
SOLD Monastery View
9x12, oil on canvas. View from a monastery in the Tuscan hills. Mist hovered on the mountains. The tiled rooftops were complemented by the distant hills.
SOLD Castle Village
9x12, oil on canvas. This painting was created on the road approaching the castle of Veruccola. My initial wash made a "happy accident" - the texture created imitated some of the old stone walls we saw.
Ruelle Bonnieux, 24x18
Provence Poppies, 18x24
Provence Poppies, 18x24
Patio Retreat
oil on canvas, 9x12. Patio at The Watermill, Posara, Italy. Plein air.
Joucas Village
oil on canvas, 9x12, completed plein air.
Gondola Ride
oil on canvas, 18x24. Architecture and boats on the Grand Canal in Venice Italy
Demijohns, 9x12
Demijohns or damigiane are old glass vessels that stored wine. Many at the Watermill where we stayed had the original wicker baskets covering the emerald jugs.
April in Paris, 20x24
Every year or two, I travel to Europe for a painting trip. In 2016, I joined an art group in the south of France. Early in 2018, I traveled to Italy and spent time painting in Tuscany. Each time, I returned with a set of small plein air paintings I made in the villages and markets of these wonderfully picturesque areas.
Back home in California, I work in my studio to create larger paintings from my photos and small plein air paintings.