The Bay of Naples

This 16” x 14” oil painting was started on the 30th of January. I worked on it off and on for the next three weeks, and then, feeling stuck, took it off the easel and hung it high up on one of my studio walls. In the past week I took it down, studied it, made some decisions, and finished it over the last three days. The view, looking west from Castel Sant’Elmo, on Vomero Hill in Naples, had…