Italian Villa Sunrise

4" x 5 1/2" , Oil over Acrylic on Board,

$100.00 SOLD

This is another version of a painting that I did

many years ago, based on a black and white

photograph I found in Italy. It is partly real,

and mostly made up.

A glaze of ultramarine blue over a thin black

acrylic sketch was the inspiration for the

"sunrise". From there it was fairly easy to imagine

what colors would be there if the sun were shining

from below...the red roof just catching the light, and

the statue catching full sun. I wish I were there now...

When I lived there I could go to the student cafeteria,

the Mensa, and get lunch or dinner for 50 cents. Those

days are long gone. I haven't been back since 1973.

But I've not lost the inspiration to still make pictures

of the place. There is no other place like it.

Sunset over Italian Garden

Oil on Paper Laid Down on Board, 4" x 5" $85.00 eBay

This is an interpretation of the gardens of Tivoli,
done from an old photograph. I have actually done
several versions of this, in different sizes, all over black,
or, brown and white underpaintings. For instance, I did
one that had a brilliant red and yellow sunset, but I prefer
this blue-green, analagous color composition. The photograph
that I worked from was black and white, so I always have made
up the color, and it has always been a good exercise in color
harmony and using my color imagination.