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Casciano Italy
June 23, 2008
Casciano, Tuscany June 19, 2008\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Italy Pisa area Storm brewing\n \n \nThis piece was from a vantage point overlooking the Tuscan landscape, just 50 km south of Pisa, on a very hot day. Thunder storms in the nearby mountains added a bit of drama with some good winds to move...
Lucca, Italy
June 23, 2008
Lucca, Italy, June 20 & 21, 2008\n \n \nWhat a way to celebrate the beginning of summer, working first from the top of the wall surrounding Lucca, towards one of the 'Torres', then another painting from below and outside the wall surrounding this beautiful Tuscan city.\n \n \nThis distinctive wall...
Tuscan Mountain Villa
June 22, 2008
San Giovanni, Italy, June 10\n \n \nThis painting is an old farmhouse where we stayed, part of a twelfth century estate perched high above the valley near San Giovanni, just 40 km east of Lucca. The house has a history that incudes the most recent incursions involving the Fascists when British...
Amalfi Coast
June 21, 2008
Salerno, Italy June 4\n \n \n \n \n \n Italy Steve sweating over a painting\n \n \nAfter a week at Monopli on Italy's southeast coast, we set-up camp at a waterfront hotel in Salerno on the Mediterranean side (west), just south of the fabled Amalfi coast. Two boat trips to both Positano and...
Pulignano A Mare, Italy
June 12, 2008
Pulignano a Mare, Italy, May 26\n \n \nThis medieval coastal town near Bari on Italy's southwest coast had a small cathedral with my own name in Italian, Cathedral St. Stefano. I couldn't resist the urge to paint there, plus the afternoon light reflecting off the Adriatic Sea was turning-up the...
Korcula Island, Croatia
June 2, 2008
Korcula Island, Croatia\n \n \nEach island we visit becomes even more beautiful than the last. Since Krk(Kirk) we have been to the medieval ccoastal city of Zadar for two days then off to Dubrovnik, where we stayed nearby in a little village called Slano, nested on a fantastic small bay of the...
Painting Krk on Krk island Croatia
May 13, 2008
Krk island, Croatia\n \n \nThree days of painting around the old city (3000 years old) with walls built between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries has been a fabulous experience!\n \n \nWe lucked into the best apartmnent rental in Croatia (at least to date) which has a balcony perfectly aligned...
Steve follows footsteps!
May 12, 2008
Venice, Italy April 28, 2008\n \n \nSteve follows footsteps!\n \n \nI had exactly one good weather day to set-up to paint in Venezia and took advantage by starting a plein air piece at one of the many Pontes - out of the wind and with sunlight streaming through. Rain and nasty weather had prevailed...
Spain - surprises through art
April 27, 2008
Wednesday April 16 2008\n \n \nAfter driving through “virtual eye candy” for one whole day without actually stopping to paint, (from Porto, Portugal to Gijon, Spain on the north coast), I finally settled on a spot overloking a tidal area just 25km east of Gijon. Off road for a few km, we tried...
Ventimiglia, Italy
April 24, 2008
Ventimiglia, Italy\n \n \n4/24/08\n \n \nThe village from the mouth of the river flowing down from the alps. Spring has arrived (o.k., it was 78 degrees that afternoon) and the colors were out. This is just across the border from France, the “rivieras” of both countries. Many studies done for...