Apples and Plum
This is not the first painting I made following the layering technique, but it's the first I documented the progress of. I followed a...
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Nov 25, 20231 min read
Surreal Neutrophils
This is totally out of my head, done alla prima in 6 hours during a very bad time for me and my boyfriend. I'm documenting it here as...
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Nov 25, 20231 min read
Postcard Lily
This started basically as a joke: can one paint something small enough to be a postcard? I painted this, and my friend Davide decided to...
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Nov 25, 20232 min read
Cong's Wood
In 2018 we shot a fantastic photo in Cong's wood (west of Ireland, where The Quiet Man was filmed) and this is my attempt at painting it....
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Nov 25, 20232 min read
The Fairy Castle
This is a castle at the bottom of a tiny valley, built by a nobleman in Portugal for his little daughter, for the ducks in the moat of...
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Still Life 1
July 2020, lockdown staycation. I took an online class with Mark Carder and he taught me an awful lot. He teaches realism and this is...
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Nov 19, 20232 min read
Debbie's Porch
Debbie is a fantastic nice lady I met the previous year while in Pleasanton, near San Francisco. Talking about paintings and reference...
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Nov 19, 20231 min read
Peppers - peperoni grandi e piccini
This one was done very much "alla prima", again in 2018, starting with a totally untreated background on cardboard. Again it was just a...
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Yellow Rose
This rose took forever, but I am pleased with the level of details and the likeness to the reference pictures. The grisaille was in umber...
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Nov 19, 20232 min read
Black and white Lilies
My boyfriend asked me not to proceed to the colour layer as he liked it a lot as soon as I reached the final stage of the grisaille. This...
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