This time in Venice I wasn’t as into painting the big Grand Tour sites. Here’s a sketch of kegs delivered to a bar somewhere off the beaten track.
Kegs in Venice
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Trash Bag, Venice
This is how you do it there, or the rats and the cats strew it all over the street.
Twilight in Florence
Dawn in Florence
Dawn in Florence. Then a million church bells started ringing and I burst into deranged tears. This is out the kitchen window of the Airbnb.
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Graffiti in Venice
Doorway in Venice
An old door in Venice. Unearthed in my studio archaeological dig.
Nightfall in Venice
From my trip to Venice last year. Excavated it today in my semi-successful studio cleanup effort.
Overcast, Trastevere
Overcast and just before a drenching downpour. This is not far from the apartment I rented for the week in Trastevere.
Campo in Venice
Here we are on Mardi Gras- no plans to do anything, but in Venice, Carnavale is in full swing. Here’s one from my trip there I hadn’t posted yet.
Canalscape
A secret garden on a quiet canal in Venice.
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Seen from the Molo across the water. Ah, Venice. This is my last picture from the trip, except two from Rome that I’m iffy about. To celebrate, I’m going to replicate a supper we ate there- pasta alla norma followed by chicken milanese (basically a breaded chicken cutlet.) And plot my next trip!
Il Redentore
Palladio’s famous church on La Giudecca. This is one of the views I especially wanted to paint in Venice, because I wanted to feel the connection to art history and the veduta tradition that originated here.
On a Dock, Venice
Piazza San Marco, Venice
I was absolutely fascinated by the acqua alta, or high water in the lower streets in Venice. It laid out for me the engineering feat that building this city was- and the ongoing challenges as well. Not sure how to express this sentiment but I’ll try- even though it’s surpassingly beautiful, the sheer will, determination, and stubbornness of the long ago Venetians to build a city in the water impresses me even more.
Foro Romano
In no particular order will follow the rest of the pictures from my trip to Rome and Venice.
I wanted to visit some of the classic sites that inspired so many 18th century “view” paintings (or vedute in Italian.) That’s where it all comes from, a hundred years before the Impressionists, and those historical pictures got in my head a few years ago and started me painting them here in San Diego.
I didn’t realize it at the time but this isn’t the vantage point I had intended to paint. I think I should have been on the other side of the Capitoline hill, which is the vantage point (I think) from Turner’s famous version of this. That painting was on the cover of copy of The Silmarillion I stole from my sister when I was kid. I loved that picture.