Artist Stephan Giannini. Upcoming project: An Illustrated Camino de Santiago Book
You may recall from my last post, that I was in Segovia, Spain and I began hiking the Camino Madrid. This overlapped with Easter week in 2024. But so many things were closed in the small towns over Easter that I trouble getting food and lodging. So I took a break from the hike. I Continue reading "Easter Week Sketching in Salamanca and Valladolid, Spain"
After my visit to Valencia in Spring of 2024, I headed to Segovia in central Spain. The primary reason for the 2024 trip to Spain was to walk the Camino Frances route of the Camino de Santiago. Towards that end, I had planned a trial Camino on a lesser-known route. This route is called the Continue reading "Exploring and Sketching Segovia, Spain and the Camino Madrid"
Above: Painting by Joaquim Sorolla During my visit to Valencia, Spain in the spring of 2024, along with enjoying the Fallas celebration, I visited three wonderful art museums. All are within a short walk of each other in the historic center. The Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia , includes a couple galleries of artwork Continue reading "Three Great Traditional Art Museums in Valencia, Spain"
A post about visiting and sketching in Michigan's gorgeous Keweenaw Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior.
After visiting Andalusia in southwest Spain, I went to the city of Valencia on Spain’s East Coast. I did some sketching, but the big excitement was that my visit coincided with Las Fallas’s week. This is an annual spring spectacle featuring intricately carved sculptures, fireworks displays, and traditional music and dance. Each Valencian neighborhood has Continue reading "Visiting and Sketching in…
For the third consecutive year I am spending time sketching in Spain in late winter and into Spring. This trip I started in Madrid and this post is about Granada, Malaga, and Almeria, all cities in Andalusia in the south. Of course, coming from Maine, the weather seemed very mild. Especially in Malaga and Almeria Continue reading "Spanish Landscape/Plein Air Painting Early 2024"
Some recent landscape and figurative oil paintings.
Some recent landscape and figurative oil paintings.
The re-creation of the huge ceiling mural at Chaffey High School Gardiner W. Spring auditorium in Ontario, California.
Blue Accents, 8 x 10" or 20 x 25 cm., oil. $200 unframed
Painting Friends, 8 x 10" or 20 x 25 cm., oil on paperboard. $200 unframed
Sunflower Reverie, 10 x 10" or 25 x 25 cm., oil. $525 unframed.
Candlelight, 8 x 10" or 20 x 25 cm, oil. $200 un-framed
Some recent landscape and figurative oil paintings.
I had been plotting and dreaming for years. So in the spring of 2022, I grabbed my sketchbook and embarked on the Camino Francés, the primary route of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain. The Camino de Santiago is a (usually) walking pilgrimage route that hundreds of thousands of people do every year. Continue reading "A Sketching Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage"
Some of my favorite recent night paintings.
Night, Bath Iron Works, Maine, 8 x 10" or 20 x 25 cm, oil. $200 unframed.
"Night in the Neighborhood, Rockland,Maine." 9 x 10" or 22 x 25 cm, oil on panel. $200 unframed.
An Angel in Maine, 10 x 15", oil on board. $625 framed.
7 x 15" or 18 x 38 cm., oil on board. $200, unframed. (Sold)
8 x 10” or 20 x 25 cm, oil on board. $150, unframed.
In the summer of 2023, I was in Rome for a few days and was thrilled to discover that a show of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida plein paintings was on. I've posted my images from the show here. The show dates are March 21 to June 11, 2023, at the Real Academia de España in Rome.
"Autumn Parade," 8 × 10" or 20 x 25 cm., oil on board. $200. Unframed.
"Friends," 8 x 12" or 20 x 30 cm., oil on board. $200. Unframed.
“Dragon Lady”, 8 × 10″ or 20 x 25 cm., oil on linen mounted on board. $150 Unframed.