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Sculpture maquette beginnings
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I’m hoping to make a sculpture in the 4 weeks that I am here at Arquetopia. It will include a life size puppy with a tree growing out of its back, spikes, stars, balloons and milk sweets.
It has been about 5 years since I had this much time to myself – it’s weird. Is this what an empty nest feels like? I can’t remember.
Favourite sculpture in Florence
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This is called Love and Fidelity by Paolo Freccia. Photography was not allowed so I have to settle for this image in the book. The detail was amazing, each tiny claw and hair on the dog was breathtaking. I fell in love, there must have been a Cupid around or something.
Giovanna Garzoni
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So I got to actually see this actual painting in actual real life and with all the actual details which means every single hair on the little dogs body!!! I was pretty happy because in reproductions you can’t see how much the dog is smiling or how it almost GLOWS. Garzoni is known for her still lifes and this painting was in a cabinet along with quite a few of her still life paintings in the Palatine gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence.
What is even going on here? There is an empty teacup and two flies have landed on the intact biscotti while the other biscotti is a bit broken. Garzoni used tempera on parchment and I am looking forward to trying out this medium soon.
Dorothea Tanning painting ‘self portrait’ at Venice Biennale x
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Ellen Altfest painting ‘Torso’ at Venice Biennale x
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Cathy Wilkes at Venice Biennale x
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Kids library Florence x
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Florence, new shoes!
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Figures from my copy of The Decameron by Waterhouse
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This is an image of my work in progress. Painting for 7 hours a day for 2 weeks I was able to block in the painting and finish the faces and hands of the figures. I am not sure if I will ‘finish ‘ it as I learnt so much from the process and techniques that I just want to get on with my own paintings. It is amazing how close you feel to an artwork and the artist when you examine it intently over a period of time. It was really, really hard and painstaking work but so worth it.
I will post a picture of the ‘finished’ work soon.