Sunny Spot 12 x 16 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $600 |
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunny Spot
Monday, November 26, 2012
Hydrangeas in Stresa
Hydrangeas in Stresa II 12 x 16 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $600 |
Friday, November 23, 2012
Siena Cat
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Tuscan Corner
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Roses in Tuscany
Monday, November 12, 2012
Radda Afternoon
Radda Afternoon 12 x 16 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $600 |
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Villa Borghese Garden
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Limone
Limone 9 x 12 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $350 |
I'll be returning to teach another workshop there next fall. If you'd like to come paint with us, please let me know. Details are on this flyer and you can save your space by registering on the Il Chiostro website .
Monday, November 5, 2012
Golden Arches - Italian Style
Golden Arches- Italian Style 8 x 10 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $300 |
I'll be returning to teach another workshop on beautiful Lake Garda September 2013. The workshop is starting to fill up and the price is guaranteed till year end, so if interested, please get in touch soon at patfiorello@aol.com. For more info see: Lake Garda flyer
Friday, November 2, 2012
Inspired by Italy- Pienza Garden
Pienza Garden 12 x 12 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $500 |
I've just begun a new series of paintings from my most recent trip to Italy When I returned last week, I loaded the 1100+ photo's I took on to my computer culled thru to get down to the top 85 or so and form there printed out about 15 that I could not wait to paint. Those are typically the images that grab me emotionally and also have good design potential in terms of light and shadow patterns. I put those photo's in a binder and then each day that I am ready to paint it's like going into a box of chocolates. I know I love them all, but which one will I choose today?
I find this prescreening process helps me to have ready reference material for inspiration yet gives me some freedom to choose what I am in the mood and excited to take on any particular day.
Pienza Garden is first one I chose to do. Pienza was a new town I visited and I fell in love with it. Up till then I had taken 500 photo's on my trip and that afternoon I took 300 just in Pienza. It exudes classic Italian charm. A pretty little town with lots of great architecture, great views and I even found a little hidden garden. The sunlight was great which always helps me find interesting compositions. The photo I took of this particular area had started out as a rectangle( original photos is below) but I wanted to see how it would look as a square format.
I was pretty happy with the first in this series. At least for me, it did capture the feeling of joy that I had standing in that sunny garden spot.
Original photo |
Value sketch |
Initial block -in |