A few studio landscapes from the last six months. Most are enlarged from plein air sketches done over the last couple of years.
The Beach Road at Palone. 90 x 110 cm, oil on linen.
Poggio delle Corti. 90 x 110 cm, oil on linen.
Dawn at Baratti. 70 x 90 cm, oil on linen.
Wheat Fields in the Senese. 80 x 100 cm, oil on linen.
Cemetery at La Pieve. 60 x 80 cm, oil on linen.
Le Balze, Volterra. 90 x 110 cm, oil on linen.
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