Many of you may or may not know that I enjoy painting. For over a year now, the banner you see at the top of this blog is an excerpt from my first, and most favorite, angel painting, titled The Departure.
In the photo here, I'm sitting in front of a painting I did for my brother's massive house. Their living room has Greek columns and I wanted to paint something from the Mediterranean.
Because our ancestors are Italian, I chose to paint one of my favorite villas by the sea--Costiera Amalfitana. I painted it from a picture. I've never visited there. You may have seen this picturesque villa in Diane Lane's film Under the Tuscan Sun and in the incredible film The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Jude Law, Matt Damon, and the beautiful Gwenyth Paltrow.
I took some liberties with the painting. For example: All of the pictures and films I had seen, never showed the tops of the mountains. So I had to make that up. (And I did have to place a sky in the painting because without it, your eye would go up and out of the painting.)
With all of its imperfections and geographical inaccuracies, I like it.
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