Figure drawing @FAA 1/6/17

Here are two recent work, from life:

40 min sanguigna, (46 x 60 cm)

2 hours, pastels (46 x 60 cm)

Sketches Oct 2015

Here we are!! I prepared this frame of sketches long ago, but I forgot to load on the web.

I hope you like!! I want to point out that on this smooth paper (the one you can find in cheap sketchbook in Tiger) the effect of copic maker is quite good and this three shades of warm grays can cover for  monochrome watercolor.

Arnovecchio Workshop wih Sandro Sacchetti (second Part)

Here we are at the second meeting in Arnovecchio for the drawing course. The weather was cloudy and almost rainy that day, but anyway we were able to finish the lesson. We drew from model in wood of mallard, male and female. They were still, so I had more time to refine the work. I used watercolor on a 25x35 (ca) Fabriano paper, and pencils in  my sketchbook for the awkward perspective of the female (about 5x5 cm).

The sketch in pencil

Final painting

And the female one:

From my POV it had more sense the positition of the tail as in the first B&W sketch. but finally it made more sense to modify a bit what I was seeing. This is not good, but hard not for me to do when drawing forsehortened parts. Maybe a solution is to firmly close an eye, and think in terms of form!

Arnovecchio Workshop wih Sandro Sacchetti (first Part)

Last Saturday I took part in a workshop held in a small natural area near my hause by the naturalistic artist Sandro Sacchetti. We didn't draw much from nature, the first part was about very general indication about drawing and the course was meant for very beginners. But anyway the weather was fine and I had pleasure sharing time, attention and passion with other people. These are the "products"

Pencil copy of a watercolour of Federico Gemma: two little hoot owl

Color pencil and watercolor pencil sketch of a little plum

Next week there will be the second part!

Sketches!!

Here they are some recent sketches. I think they are all from 2016.

This drawings are from the country near my home. The bird you can see in the second picture is a wild silent duck

Life drawing December 2015 /January 2016

Hello, a couple of drawings I made at Florence art academy during the last months.

Scketchcrawl Florence 23/01/2016

Hallo!! Last Saturday was the international sketchcrawl. I joined the group in Florence. We spent the morning sketching at the Marini Museum in Florence. That place was wanderful, an old church transformed into a museum. Also the artworks were great with lots of statues and paintings from this modern artist

Sketching Sunday

Hi all!! I want to share some recent sketches I made during the last Sunday. It was a sunny day, a bit cold in respect to what we were got used to during this Novemeber, but I enjoyed a bit of sun in the neighbours of my house. Here it is a study of a bush (dog rose)

Sketching nature in October

Here they are some recent sketches done on location. October has been warm and temperate, and also November seems to be the same. These are all from the surroundings of where I live:


A study of a tree, the way to render foliage with fineliner, and some zoom-in of the leaves and seeds (some sort of maple).

Riomaggiore digital

Hay ya!! Here I introduce a digital sketch of a landscape made during a recent trip to the Cinque Terre. Here I was in Riomaggiore, the first of the villages on the sea of this handsome region. It's really rough and it'd need a lot of refinement..the colors are quite different according to the screen. I'm not confident with the software yet. This is done with Sketchbook pro.

Plen air sketch: Monte Albano

Here's a recent plen air sketch. Done in watercolor on spot in about 45 minutes. A child and his father stopped by me while I was sketching. The child was curious, and was also full of question which is a great thing I think... the photo has an uneven lighting because some sun rays were filtering through the branches of the pines. The dimension is about 20x15 cm on Fabriano watercolor paper.

Train sketches 4

I share some sketches I made on the train. What's new with these? I made them with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro ® for android, on my new tablet Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ®.

June Sketches

An eucalyptus in Empoli:

Watercoulor, waterbrush and watercoulor pencils.

San Miniato

A windy day. 8th March 2015. Still cold, even if you can see the coming of the spring in some buds and and canes. I was able to see white rushes and the snow on the far Appenine. I went to Corniano, on the southern side of San Miniato, with my new Schmincke Horadam watercolour.

I know.. The city with the famous stronghold isn't in my sketch... but it won't be the first time that I ignore buildings... Maybe I need more patience and precision, and I relax at best with painting natural object. But it could be a field were I pick up. And also I could try to paint the tower and the town someday.. Let's notice: too color density on the near hill. But I had to test the glazing with this strong watercolour brand. You can get almost a guache effect, and that's good for me, but need practice obviously. Pehaps, for the sake of watercolour, it's better to stay away from high density, but I think that finally the attention is focused on San Miniato hill, and that's not bad, because we have a stronger subject.

REFLECTIONS & Some sketches in the field

Here are some sketches of 2014. I'm not particularly proud of them, perhaps I shouldn't post this (and the photos are horrible too), I could make an effort on it); but I think that this can be tought and said for every post. So I will tell the world this sketches, but mostly as a "backup" sketchbook. Maybe is  cushier to collect picture here, I can see what are the worst part and think about correction, and also I can contextualize the picture, and evoke a particular mood without having the need of looking up the originals spread out somewhere in some drawers. I hope this will help me keeping motivated. If you have any comment or critics... feel free to post!!

Present for a collegue

Sometime ago, some year actually, a collegue saw a drawing of mine in wich was portraited a woman. That woman had a scarf on her had; the collegue was very fond of the picture and I gave her that little pen sketch. After some year, in wich our paths have risked to fallen apart, we are together again, not in the same office but near. So she asked me to make a St. Joseph, beacuse that scarfed woman reminds her of St. Mary. So, after some research, I found a Rembrandt's pen sketch wich was a study for a St. Joseph. I made a copy for her but also a photo (and a copy) for memory.
Here it is..

Sepia Pitt Pen on a watercolor base of ochre and  burnt umber.

Train Sketches 4

Pubblico qualche altro ritratto fatto sul treno a Marzo.

I love making portraits.. Basically the sketches I do in the train are all portraits, some happier than others. Here they are four of the more recent

E già che ci sono uno studio di un torso maschile:

And also a male torso, copied from Loomis:

Train Sketch 3

Sketch treno

Ecco un'altra paginetta:

Sketch treno 3

Uno sketch a penna