Red cat

Happy Friday everyone!!
This is last cat of the series of three , the canvas has a lot of texture as you can see zooming in

And after 3 fun painting back to some serious stuff! It ll take me  few days to work on this, so see you next week guys! Have a great weekend!

Pink Cat

12x16 inc

Flowers, hearts and a pink cat!
I worked the canvas to get a lot of texture, it ll be fun to touch once is dried!
 There is A LOT of oil on this one painting, so it 'll take a long time!! ( is so super shiny that I had trouble in taking picture too!)

Happy Thursday everybody!

Figure drawing with red carbothello

Hello everyone!
These are drawing from today's class. The model was same one of last portrait..the one who was falling asleep! Well today it was even worst than that...complaining, yawning , stretching, EVERYTHING but not keeping still...it was tough!!
I hope you like it anyway!
Using the red pencil for this kind of pose was an experiment, first time ever for me, but I like the effect!
The 2 drawings are dedicated to my dear friend Pino,  is nice to put a body to a face, isnt it? :)
ciao!!!

Yellow Cat

Good morning!
There are so many cat's lover all around ( first of all my mom!!) that it was about time to paint something cat related!
I painted 3 cats, with this same style, they are all very colorful and sweet!
The canvas is worked in such a way to have a great texture, as you can see in the zoomed picture.
I believe that touching your painting is as important as looking at it!
Hope you like it!

Going for a walk with Mona now than off to drawing class...to draw some naked models! FUN! :)
Have a great day everyone!

back to class! and loving it !:)

 Hello everyone and ...CIAO MAMMA!!!
yes....correct guess! my mom has started reading my blog, and from today she has also a FB account!! wow wow wow! I am speachless! Brava mamma!!
I am so glad she got better with internet...and she will improve her English too! :)

Beautiful sunny day this one, hot but not too hot, just the usual perfect amount of heat ( i am making some Italians jealous on this point!)

My right ankle is not yet ok so no running once again, I am missing it so much!! Hopefully by the end of week I ll be ok.  Mona had 2 long walks, she cannot complain :)

After a break of almost 2 weeks I was back to my favourite thing: head drawing class.

This is today's portrait, I took picture of different steps, hope you will enjoy it!

 This is the drawing I did in the first 20 min of the sitting session, dark and shadows.

 In the second sitting I go darker and I add details

 In the last 20 min I add the white pencil and pay attention to the details.

  I am very pleased with the final result! I especially like the  teeth showing between the lips, if you zoom in the final drawing you can spot them!
She was a nice model...even though she fall asleep twice !! She said she didnt sleep well last night...ok!!!! :)

Happy birthday to my amazing other half!

Happy Birthday Baby!!
super love you!

PS. this is not a painting ! is a cheese cake with strawberry :)

Me and Mona

First of all SORRY for not having posted anything lately but we went to Mexico for 5 days ( NICE!!!!!!) and yesterday i was too busy cooking for last night BBQ and cleaning and unpacking....and tomorrow we are leaving again, only for a night in San Francisco.
Cant wait to have some peace and quiet and start painting something Mexico inspired!!

This is painting I am posting is one I finished last week, is a big canvas 18x24 inches, and I LOVE IT.
Is my favourite painting till now.

I ll post various picture of painting on his way :)

 The picture (BEAUTIFUL!) was taken some time ago by my hubby , he is an amazing photographer :)

 and in the next picture you can see the model relaxing!!! she is absolutely fantastic!!

Now the finished painting :