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

The Beach Road at Bolgheri

Reeds

Reeds

The View from Biserno

The View from Biserno

Airplane

Airplane

Stone Pines at Bolgheri

Stone Pines at Bolgheri

Fishermen at Cecina

Fishermen at Cecina

Cypress at Biserno

Cypress at Biserno

The Beach at Bolgheri

The Beach at Bolgheri