This was the very first open air painting I did in Italy. I walked about one block up from the Arrioto (block, they don't really have blocks. There's basically one road that runs through town and it may split off and run around a couple central buildings and then merge back together futher along). When I first saw the building I just stared at it for a while. It was just to the right of where the road split away like a Y, so all there was to sit …
Watercolor Painting
Giovanni’s Tower, Italy – Plein Air Watercolor
This is the plein air watercolor "Giovanni's Tower" I was working on when when the young man in the truck pulled up and showed me the pictures on his phone of his artwork. He may have been trying to tell me something of the subject I was painting but I couldn't understand Italian. Alas I did find out the story about it one evening at dinner with the boys when a gentleman from the company the guys were dealing with joined us for dinner at a …
Italy’s beautiful buildings – Open air painting
This open air painting depicts the setting where the old man came out and sat by me and started a conversation. I wish I would have studied some more phrases from my Italian book, I would have liked to ask him if he was a farmer in the town. His face was leathery brown just like another elderly gentlemen whom I saw open a set of green, heavy wooden doors through which he then drove his old red tractor (much like the one my father had), and …