These are a few of the sketches from my ten day workshop near Trevi, Umbria. Daniela Astone and I would get up at dawn to get a painting in before classes started so most of the paintings are early morning sketches. The dawns go so fast in June though, and we were west of a mountain range so we often had to sit and wait for the sun to come up over the hill.
St. Vincenzo Ferreri, Trevi. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
Haybales Sketch. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
Trevi. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
Haybales sketch, Trevi. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
Hi Marc, I am so glad to see your paintings! Please tell me, why did you paint the big one on white canvas and the panels with ochre underpainting ( this is called imprimatura?)
A great series of paintings you have made!
You said you wait for the sun to come over the hills, I done that last winter on the ice and noticed the birds came from everywhere a minute before the sun came above the horizon.
Hello Maike, I was trained to paint on white (or off-white) canvases, so the big one is really how I normally paint. Recently I started using the transparent red oxide imprimaturas on my panels after studying the Macchiaoli paintings on board in the Pitti. Both methods are fine.