Segni e colori

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012

2011-12-21T04:41:00.000-08:00

Rainbow and Snow at Vesuvius

So we arrived at another Christmas,

I hope for you better than mine.

However I want to thank everyone for the good and for evil.

Especially for evil.

May the Lord bless them, as I bless them.

Poor, will never see a rainbow shine because they are already condemned!.

2011-08-30T23:38:00.000-07:00

My first thousand visitors

Thank you for your very kind visits on this blog.

We want dedicate this post for the first thousand visits to our loved city.

We all in Castellammare are doing , as citizens, something for our city.

Also , as artist, I want dedicate this post to the recovery of Stabia Seaside.

These photo are that I taked on this August the 13th.

So I thinked about the 79 A.C. Vesuvius eruption and I imagined the Stabia recovery:

"Stabia: The Bay After"

Some summer for you all!

2011-07-02T10:10:00.000-07:00

"The last rays"

"Railway shadow"

"To my feet"

"In search of shade"

Winter is over

2011-03-08T08:59:00.000-08:00

2011 "Afternoon job"

2011-01-18T09:47:00.000-08:00

Walking in

Castellammare di Stabia.

"2001 First Sunset"

Happy new year

2011-01-01T09:28:00.000-08:00

Happy new year to everybody

"2011 Cornucopia"

"New year barbecue"

Winter Rainbow

2010-12-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

A long rainy November, we hope it changes!

"Rainbow panorama"

"Abstract Rainbow"

"Going away"

Railroad Station Shipwreck

2010-11-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

This morning I noticed this poster in railroad station.

It was very fun to find a ship in full sail in the waiting room of the local train :

they want we dream, I thought :

2010 "Railroad shipwreck poster"

2010 "Railroad station shipwreck"

2010 "Shipwreck in a railroad station"

My paradise

2010-10-25T08:16:00.000-07:00

Only for you : my paradise, enjoy!

Little october dragon

Ischia sunset

Swimming

Abstract

Watercolor

My paradise

Panorama

See you in Naples!

2010-09-05T01:27:00.000-07:00

"2010 Sun and Moon"

Watch the video of the meeting in Naples of the Sun with the Moon

Digital Summer works

2010-08-25T10:41:00.000-07:00

Here some other digital works to spend vacations.

"Ischia Sunset from Stabia"

"Hills"

"Pigeons"

"Gold Sunset"

Try it

2010-07-22T00:42:00.000-07:00

Vacation time, Otium as the Romans said ,

I try to do something different with different medium,

here are some digital works :

"Cliff"

(An ancient galeon appears from the cliff)

First step

2010-07-09T22:25:00.000-07:00

"First step"

2010 24x33 cm. pastels and colored pencils on paper

Looking at sea

2010-06-19T03:54:00.000-07:00

"Looking at sea" studio

2010 24x33 cm. pastels and colored pencils on paper

SODADE

2010-06-17T08:37:00.000-07:00

"Sodade" studio

2010 22x29,7 cm. pastel and colored pencils on paper

la joie de vivre

2010-06-12T01:56:00.000-07:00

"La joie de vivre" - studio

2010 24x35 cm. Pastel and colored pencils on paper

All that glitters is gold?

2010-06-03T11:32:00.000-07:00

"Dreaming friend"

2010 35x50 cm. Pastels and coloured pencils on paper

(Not for sale : who would purchase a dream of mine?)

Many painters lie on the plethora of art websites and blogs.

Someone updates them, if he is working daily,

someone else leaves his site becomes obsolete.

Many self saying artists boast often qualities that they haven't even remotely,

since much of their work would not exist without photography.

As well as many claim to draw lines extremely precise

using good image projectors and

by enlarging dramatically the size of the subject.

Do you know when they draw and paint the animals fur?

I love to paint at natural greatness, or at least at the size the eyes see.

So it becomes more difficult to obtain some details as hairs, eyes or anything else.

Another thing that enjoy me is to change some features of people,

making them ugly, especially the naked women

Every time it happens that the picture obtained

has a charm which upsets me and anyone watching, I hope.

Oil

2010-05-25T02:23:00.000-07:00

"Jonhatan" detail

So it seems impossible to save our earth!

"Seaside"

2010 24x33 Pastels and colored pencils on fabriano paper

We are living the last days with a heavy sense of anguish.

Personally, we are afraid when we start to draw and paint in an expressionistic way,

it means that we hurry to finish the work we have in hand before it is too late.

"Vesuvius Sunset"

2010 24x33 Pastels and colored pencils on fabriano paper

We do not know whether it is for our particular situation,

but we can not put our heart on the drawing board to devote ourselves to finish the job well.

"Sunset"

2010 24x3 pastels and colored pencils on fabriano paper

"Wave"

2010 24x33 pastels and colored pencils on fabriano paper

Our friend Jonathan has said enough with the flights:

it had to stay on the ground because of the cloud of the volcano in Iceland

so it has decided to take a look at some trash dump and it finds oil generously lavished in the ocean instead.

What if to keep prices high?

"Jonhatan"

2010 24x33 Pastels and colored pencils on murillo grey paper

These invent a day one of it to make money.

Medlars

2010-05-19T03:20:00.000-07:00

Linda was already waiting for me,

under my chair,ready to begin working.
So we take some Medlars

in a small capodimonte pot

on an embroidered white doily

and begin to work.

Despite the mess that we work with,but that it is, just a passion!

We have the impression that something good will come out also this morning.

"Medlars"

2010 24x33 cm. Pastel and colored pencils on fabriano paper

Artist's pride

2010-05-18T10:17:00.000-07:00

Watching around the Web to thank a friend who leaved

a comment on one of my father artworks,
we came across a discussion in which the forum moderator

exalted the artistic talents of a poor,little dauber

making it drop directly from the Olympus gods.

At my question if that was a good artist as the moderator said,

my father replied :

"You know that I don't like a lot to speak of art,

but I like instead to do it.

You also know what I did make in my past life of painter,

so I'll prove to you that a subject that I usually was painting in 1980s

can still make an impression now!

They have now so many tools

(computers, digital cameras, projectors, plotters, etc..)

to think they are good artists just because

they are able to trace or color their printed images.

What they would be if without photograph?".

"Live"

2010 24x33 Pastels and colored pencil on fabriano paper

Waking early

2010-05-17T03:51:00.000-07:00

We wake up very early every morning. So we can see the dawn rise over the beautiful valley of Vesuvio.
If the weather is good we fill our eyes with the beautiful colors of the River Sarno valley,but we can no longer work for the entire morning.

If instead the weather is a bit gloomy we need to work and try to get the lights and colors we need.
This morning we tried a beautiful color of hair resembling the Linda's fur, our dog!

"Waking early"
2010 24x33 cm. Pastel and colored pencils on Fabriano paper

It is too early to stop working.

So, since we have some colors on the table,let's start another nude figure.
We begin to fund the incarnate making a simple texture

that use also the white paper.

Now let's work to shadows in order to have

a tridimensional sense

Some lines with pencils to obtain the darkest zones and details

We add some lights to have
a finished aspect.

"My best friend"
2010 24x33 pastel and colored pencils on Fabriano paper

Remember Sarno river

2010-05-15T01:27:00.000-07:00

When my father was young he met the first time his painting teacher

while working next a little bridge, said "The girls bridge", on the Sarno river.

The Sarno river is a river that cuts the whole landlow of Vesuvius.

This valley is one of the most fertile lands of Campania.

Do you know S.Marzano tomatoes?

Yust one of the thousand good earth's product of the Sarno Valley.

"Save Sarno river"

2010 24x33 cm. pastels and colored pencils on fabriano paper

(private collection)

Spring colors need

2010-05-14T03:56:00.000-07:00

This morning he had a great need of spring colors,

something like that he saw on riding his honda interceptor,

so he has drawn in a few lines this landscape of the country of Paestum.

I don't know if his fast having his colors depends from his 6o years old age

painter experience or from his habit to motorbike speed.

I know very well instead it is a great show to see his colors borning in a breath on the paper.

"Paestum country"

2010 24x33 cm. Pastels and colored pencils on Fabriano paper

(private collection)

Vesuvius sunset condivide

2010-05-11T11:18:00.001-07:00

We just thought that it would be a good idea to condivide

with all friends these landscapes keept in real time

(ten minutes ago) from our window :

they will use the pictures as well they like,

since we think that nature is for anyone

and that there are not two artists that may do the same thing.

Enjoy.

ACEO emotion

2010-04-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

Two peachs
24/04/2010 2,5"x3,5"

While drawing a new ACEO with coloured watersoluble pencils...

We decided to condivide

in a very few steps this further experience.

We begin to evoke the shapes of peachs:

then we add some shade:

now we add some tonal light too:

it's time to makeup our peachs:

we continue to add lights and makeup peachs
in order to soften the colors:
we add some details:

it's time to use the magic trick

to give impression of the peachs fuzz:

Some further details:

it's time to sign the work:

So we may ensure our friends that this is a
unique,handmade,and small

artwork however worty to be collected:

We hope we have submitted to everybody

the artist's sense of power to evoke and to see everything

he is able to draw, to paint, to sing, to play, to recite.

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