Challenges And Opportunities

  As an artist, I've always enjoyed showing the process of my painting experience.

  In this blog post, we take it down to the bare bones.

  The reason why... in this studio, away from my home studio in California, I've had to improvise.

  This has brought a welcoming experience of just tacking the canvas to the wall, and painting it that way. Painting it as it is.

  I guess I think of this as my 'rustic studio', here in Italy. 

  Every experience brings challenges and opportunities, so I'm very excited to show and describe the process here, on this blog. 

The doorway to the studio.

A cramped studio. You work with what you have available.
No complaints.

A group of finished canvases to be shipped back to the gallery.

Trying to keep the plaster walls and tile floors as clean as I can.

My studio floor.

  These paintings will all be exhibited in our gallery in Carmel, California later this year.
  I'm looking forward to the show.

Busy In The Studio 2019

  Johnny has finished twelve canvases so far during this trip to Umbria, and he's not done yet.

   He is learning how to create larger works in his studio here, as opposed to his usual smaller 'plein-air' paintings he has done in the past.

  Working here on a larger scale has been a goal for many years. Now that we have this apartment, with a dedicated studio space, his dream of doing large paintings here has been realized.

  The studio is proving to be a launching point to the future of unlimited possibilities.

  As we wait to ship these canvases back to the gallery in California, we can enjoy them here...

  We look forward to an upcoming show of the beautiful works soon!
  Stay tuned...

Raw Canvas

  Just following the ancient tradition of many artists before me.

  I'm proud and honored to be a part of this tradition...but this is what all artists have to do. It's our roots.

  I purchased a length of raw cotton canvas in Deruta this week.  Unprimed cotton. No english spoken, so it was a very fun challenge.

  

  Back at my studio, I spent the morning applying gesso to the canvas. I'll need to do a second coat tomorrow.

  We'll see how this canvas develops over the next several days.

  Stay tuned.