Castlefranc

Castlefranc
9 x 12 Oil Painting
 NFS

Painted on location in Castelfranc, France, this scene required quite of bit of artistic license. One of my mentors always reminds me, "Don't paint what it is, paint what you want it to be" and I really took on that attitude as I approached this scene. The buildings provided a good framework for the light and shadow patterns and then I embellished the scene with colorful flowers from my imagination and distant trees pulled from some of the surrounding area. Below are some photo's from the location so you can see what it really looked like and how much editing I did.

Albas, Cloudy Day

Albas, Cloudy
8 x 10 Oil Painting
$250

After completing yesterday's painting where I adjusted the lighting to what I wanted it to be, I did another version depicting the grayer conditions.This painting was more outside my comfort zone since I prefer to paint sunny days and the drama of light and shadow in my paintings. Still had to use some artistic license to create in center of interest in this otherwise gray scene.

Albas, Sunny

Albas, Sunny
9 x 12 Oil Painting
$400

Painted on location in Albas France last week. The weather was cloudy and even began to rain, so the scene wasn't really that appealing. I decide to modify a bit to depict a sunnier day.

Timeless

Timeless
8 x 16 Painting by Pat Fiorello

$400
 

Tried something new today.  After I had gone thru a number of photo's, cropped them down to explore different design ideas and selected a subject for the day, but before I started painting, I wrote in a journal what my intentions for the painting were.  The words that came up were "Timeless Beauty", "more feeling, less literal", "simplify, not overly detailed"," romantic", "sensitive" and one quote from my mentor, Marilyn Simandle, "paint 18 inches down" ( meaning move from the head to the heart).

While this might look like it has a lot of detail, it really does not have anywhere near the detail that I could see. I held myself back from going any further and had a lot of fun being very free with this and was pretty happy with the outcome. So I think I'll continue to experiment with setting the intention before painting and actually writing it down to keep me present to where I wanted to head and see if that may become a regular part of my painting process.