Art & Inspiration from professional artist and instructor Pat Fiorello. Pat is known for her romantic landscape, garden and floral paintings in oil and watercolor. Her paintings often depict beautiful places like Italy and France. Pat teaches painting workshops in the U.S., Caribbean and Europe. She is passionate about inspiring others to include art in their life. Whether creating it or simply appreciating and enjoying it, there are so many ways that art elevates life!
Thinking of You
20 x 16 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello
$1200
My husband surprised me with a pretty yellow and white bouquet this week. I placed it on the dining room table near some light green hydrangeas I had already brought in from our garden. I loved the color combination of the 2 bouquets together so that became the inspiration for this oil painting.
Fields of France
6 x 8 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello
$100
Did a small 6 x 8 study in preparation for a larger oil painting I plan to do in the next few weeks. Working on getting the sensation of the brilliantly sunlit fields in the distance yet still having a sense of depth.
Doing a larger watercolor of this scene for a commission project later this week, so thought I'd do a quick study to begin to familiarize myself with the scene.
Had a little fun with artistic license on this one. Changed the chair pads to red and the wine to red to complement all the greens.
Highlands Beauty
12 x 16 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello
$650
I arranged some hydrangeas and dahlias for a demonstration in my watercolor workshop last week (see previous blog post) and wanted to try the same arrangement out in oils. I created short youtube videos showing the basic steps in the process for each so you can see the very different approaches required for the two different mediums. Here's the oil video and the watercolor version is with the watercolor painting posted on my blog on 8/12/14.
Please share with those who you think might enjoy this!
Have a beautiful day!
Pat
Highlands Beauty
12 x 16 Watercolor by Pat Fiorello
$300
Spent last Thursday and Friday up in beautiful Highlands, North Carolina teaching a 2 day workshop "Capturing the Essence of Flowers in Watercolor"
Had lots of fun with a great group of students.
I made a quick video of the demo painting I did so you can see how it unfolded from start to finish. Press arrow below to play.
Students at work on their flower paintings
Still life arrangement of hydrangeas and dahlia
In watercolor it's easiest (though not the only way) to work light to dark. I may try to do this painting in oils as well- the complete opposite process- working dark to light and will share that when I do. I'll be back at the Bascom teaching "Painting Landscapes in Watercolor" October 22-24. It will be a great time to be there while the leaves are changing this fall. For more information or to register and join in the fun click on The Bascom .
