10% OFF SALE IN MY ETSY SHOP

Hello!

 As you guys know Mona Lisa corner moved from Menlo Park to SF :)

To celebrate the new location and the new studio there is a sale in my ETSY shop, any painting  

through the 31st of AUGUST with the code  1HAPPYSUMMER.

 Just enter the code at checkout, drop me an email if you want to know more! Thanks!!!

The basket of apples, Cezanne

Our last assignment for the summer painting class was copying still life from a master painting from the past .

After a lot of internet browsing I decided to paint the apple basket of Cezanne. I love the color and the balanced composition . This piece is known for his disjointed perspective, the tilted bottle, the incline of the basket, and the foreshortened lines of the cookies meshing with the lines of the tablecloth.Additionally, the right side of the tabletop is not in the same plane as the left side, as if the image simultaneously reflects two viewpoints.

Here is my painting :

14x18 inches

oil on canvas

Here is the original :

...my bottle is actually more straight than the original!!!:)

Painting with cotton buds:)

Last week of my summer semester at the Academy.
Looking forward to have more time to paint in August, but also sad for the end of this painting class. I really enjoyed it.
If there is something I am never tired of is painting (and my hubby homemade pizza of course!!)

Today we did a still life painting with the pointillism technique using cotton buds.
The best part of this technique is NO BRUSH CLEANING IN THE END :) (happy me!!)
Here is the finished painting:

12x16 inches

oil on canvas

I Love the final result! Looking forward to try to do some portrait with cotton buds:)

Down are some pictures of the work in progress:

Clouds and sunflowers

9x12 inches

oil on canvas

Clouds & Sunflowers

Good morning!

This was a cloudy study I painted last week, I added some hill, my favorite red roof house and 4 sunflowers, lovely !

Cloudy today in Ocean beach, but I dont mind :) plenty of colors in my painting room!

Have a great day everyone!

Don' t forget to check out the last paintings for sale on my etsy shop or my  in my ebay shop :)ciao!!

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Umbria, Italy Villa Col delle Noci

11x14 inc

oil on canvas

Villa Col delle Noci, Umbria, Italy

Hello!

Today I decided to paint a beautiful Italian lanscape.

Hopefully I succeed in making it as beautiful as it really is!

This villa is called Col delle Noci. That means  Walnut hill.

All around are walnut trees.

JUST STUNNING!!!

Here are some pictures of the work in progress, enjoy it!

My place.

Happy happy happy!
I had a totally fabulous start of the week :)
A very early run on the beach (before taking the bus to school at 7.15. !) then 7 hours in school and then home again, out for another run with a super active dog!
Falling totally in love with the beach and the ocean.

However I still enjoy more painting hills and green landscape. I feel it closer to me, to my home, to my upbringing and to my memories.

Here is today painting done with a limited color palette:
Ultramarine blu, venetian red, yellow pale ochre, black, white and EXCEPTIONALLY :) a tiny bit of primary yellow for front grass and flowers:)

 11x14 inches

My place

 Una romagnola in California

oil on canvas

I called this painting ME, because it totally me. :) I could live in that house with the red roof :) 

This last painting is California and Romagna mixed in together. 

I found the house picture while browsing Antonella 's picture. ( scusa Anto mi e' morto il pc e sono a corto di foto!!) 

While the landscape is from my amazing watercolor teacher Stephen Curl.

 This the first stage of painting

This is a detail, I love the flowers full of texture .

Home sweet home

Hello hello!
The first Saturday in new home :) grey and cold outside , like all the other days of the week :) but nice, warm, cozy and very colorful inside.
The only problem is that the tiny neck pain I had this morning has transformed into an horrible neck, shoulder, back pain. Plannign to lay down as soon as I am done with the blog:)
 I started my homework for my Monday but I need to finish the colors on my palette so I went for something easy and relaxing.

Here it is, simply sweet :)

8x6 inches

oil on canvas

home sweet home

This painting is already available on my ebay page!

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