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!
White & Blue
6 x 8 oil painting
by Pat Fiorello
$100
Been doing a little more experimenting with the palette knife- trying to get the right balance of texture- some to get the spirit of the type of flowers, but not too much.
"Golden Moment"
6 x 8 oil painting
by Pat Fiorello
$100
The other day I posted a yellow rose against a soft light greenish background.
Today I painted another yellow rose against a dark background. Interesting to see the difference in mood just by changing the color of the background with very similar subject matter Here is the earlier rose for comparison.
Silver & Gold
8 x 10 oil painting
by Pat Fiorello
$300
Saved this old silver teapot that was on it's way to Goodwill from a relative cleaning out her closet. But when we polished it up, we both thought the same thing- this needs to be painted! So now it's officially part of my painting prop collection. Fun to paint silver- it's all about the reflections.
Red & White
8 x 10 oil painting
by Pat Fiorello
$300
Tried something new today. I wanted to paint some flowers not in a vase but just sprawled out. I intended to do an 8 x 10 painting. As part of my May Flowers Challenge this month I'm keeping the paintings on the smaller side .
I took the flowers and leaves and laid them out on top of another 8 x 10 canvas (fortunately that one had a plastic wrap still on so the panel didn't get wet). This allowed me to physically lay out the composition the way I wanted and know that it would fit on an 8 x 10 canvas.
I didn't have a white rose available, but used the pink one as a stand in and made it a little bit whiter. Below is a photo of my layout on the canvas.
