Ten paintings a day
Don’t try this at home. Some blogs do a painting-a-day, I was given a house last week for 4 days and tried to make as most out of it as possible by painting as many small sketches in a day as I could. I thought I would go for ten a day. This seemed easy as the estate where I was painting is in an especially picturesque part of the upper Maremma, and I was very inspired by the landscape. I ended up working from 7:30-ish in the morning until 11 pm at night (there was a full moon, so I could paint at night).
Unfortunately I have the habit of holding my brushes with my left hand while I work, and as I painted over the course of the day I kept grabbing clean brushes while continuing to hold the old ones. By the end of the day I had held a huge mass of brushes in my hand for hours and that night I came down with severe tendinitis and a terrible fever which lasted 4 days. It still hurts today as I type, almost a week later.
Clever. Anyways, here are some of the sketches:
The Beach Road at Bolgheri
Reeds
The View from Biserno
Airplane
Stone Pines at Bolgheri
Fishermen at Cecina
Cypress at Biserno
The Beach at Bolgheri
Nice. Similar to my own style tho I haven’t painted in a long time. I like that you let the board show through and keep it loose. Looks like you are in some beautiful places. Take care of your health!
Hi Marc, Hope you are recovered from the tendinitis & the fever. I’m so very impressed & inspored by your sketches. Good luck with your upcoming show.