Head drawing

This is the portrait from Tuesday class....it came out nice..but it was H A R D!!!!
The model is nice guy, funny in his own way, constantly moving...and probably modelling is not the right thing for him!! He cannot stay still for more than 2 min!
Anyway...he liked my drawing and in the end he took a pict of it!!

Happy Thursday friends!! I have just finished to clean the house and I am about to move to the garden for a nice painting session:)

Sunflower with Blue scarf

20x25 cm oil on canvas

I bought new sunflowers at Trader's few days ago with the idea of painting them.
Yesterday I set up this still life outside, adding my favourite scarf at the bottle! I bought it ages ago back in Italy , in my hometown ( Faenza) at the Saturday market. Sweet memories!!!
I find this painting super sweet!
happy Wednesday guys!!

Poppies 3

20x25 cm oil on canvas, with palette knife
Another poppies painting :)
This was done ALL with the palette knife , i used the brush only for the inside of the flower
It has a really cool effect!
Is dedicated 100% to my amazing husband that is working on my webpage!!! I am super excited about it!!
thanks baby!!!!!!!!
ps  sorry for the many interruptions!!:)

Playing around with Poppies

Hello everyone!
I had a couple of days off from painting, I am sure you don t mind!
We have some friends  staying with us at the moment,  so I was try to keep the house clean and decent!! keeping my hands off colors of course!
But 2 days without painting is more than enough for me:)
I was feeling like experimenting and playing around a bit, so here you are: poppies !
I used modeline paste to add texture and if you zoom you can spot a bit of collage in the background..can u see it ?

20x25 cm mixed media and oil on canvas

Me and you

Friday...cloudy, windy and pretty cold today :( too bad!!!!
But the highlights of the day is that I ll have my husband back home!
Finally!! After a very hard week of studies (and parties!!)
This is one I posted is a watercolor I did some time ago, sweet and simple :)
No time to paint today, sorry!! Busy with some other stuff , but I ll make in the weekend!
ciaooo!

Espresso please!

This is my painting of today, a cup of nice creamy Italian espresso 20x25 cm oil on canvas.
It was actually a very hard subject to do, I think I will have to paint this subject a couple of more times before getting to a result I TOTALLY LIKE.
The same as I did with the pears, I love my last pair.
It took me my whole afternoon to paint this cup!!! Of course at the end of the day the coffee looked pretty disgusting and it ended up in the sink :)
Taking the doggie for a run and then I have a nice relaxing evening of ironing ahead :)
Have a nice evening everyone!

Figure drawing

 These are some of the drawing from yesterday class, poses of 2/5/10 min.
The model was really good, doing a lot of interesting and challenging poses.
Unfortunately this was the last class for this quarter butthe course will start again in September.
I am extremely happy with the improvement done during this class...I am actually very happy with myself :) still a lot of work to do of course but i can see that practice is the secret.