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Artists Residencies in Italy

Italy is a very…

The scene of the San Niccolo tower and the reflected morning light in the Arno is a popular one among artists and students of art, living in Florence. It pops out of the opposite riverbanks trees and is complimented by the remains of a mill at the weir opposite. The calmness in the water created by the weir creates beautiful reflections in the early morning and is best from 9am onwards. A civilized hour for a working artist to begin a painting.

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There are so many ways to paint a landscape or cityscape. I made a step by step demo on my blog for anyone who's interested in one particular method. There are a few other approaches that I use but I like this because it's more open to interpretation and less concerned with accuracy. This is painted in Belgrade, Serbia. Oils on canvas. The painting is being exhibited with 8…

While researching one of my favorite landscape painters, William Turner, I learned a little about the back story of one his seascapes which now resides in the John Paul Getty Museum.

I was studying his painting method when I noticed something odd about the painting and discovered that Turner was also a master of hidden messages.…