Landscape near Villa Bianca Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas panel 13 x 16″ 33 x 41cm Red Vines Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 8 x 20″ 20 x 50cm Across the Panaro Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 15 x 12″ 38 x 30cm Golden Shadows Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 14 x 10.5″ 35 x 25cm Panaro winding through Fall Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 10.5 x 14″ 25 x … Continue reading Artnotes: The Dog and Pony Show
Mowed (at the Pieve Trebbio) Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 18″ 30 x 45cm Today we painted at the Pieve di Trebbio, an old church site at the edge of Rocca Malatina. We’ve been painting with a new found friend here in Rocca. She is from Milan, only here for the summer, but she has been a dream. While Blair and I can … Continue reading Artnotes: Yikes!
Roses and Fig Leaves Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 16 x 14″ 40 x 35cm 200.00 I started “The Mosquito Journal” a couple of months ago, and really enjoy just jotting down in pen or pencil a few thoughts about the day. It makes me think of Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book from the 11th century (unlike the tawdry 1996 movie); or Samuel Pepys Diary from the 1600s: only a … Continue reading Artnotes: Little Things
Yellow Butterfly Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 24″ 41 x 63cm Gee but it’s great to be back home. Rocca Malatina: friends, the big house, the yard, roses and hundreds of butterflies. One of the first things I noticed upon our return were the butterflies. Not fancy Vladimir Nabakov varieties but, the run-o-mill cabbage butterflies (white with black dots), or the red admirable, tiny blues (that’s a Nabakov … Continue reading Artnotes: Home
Stimigliano in Snow Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 18 x 15″ 45 x 38 cm 295.00 As you likely heard, there was SNOW in Rome this week. The last time it snowed was 2012 and before that it was in the last century. People went completely crazy and Stimigliano was no exception. Children and adults alike threw snowballs and made snowmen. I saw the best broccoli eyes ever; three days later … Continue reading Blame the Weather
Villa Loris in Snow Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 24″ 30 x 60cm We spent most of the week in Rocca Malatina, at the “big house”. We had a number of activities taking place there: a friend who we knew from the first weeks of our time in Italy passed away. We missed seeing him a very last time by just an hour. We took solace in the fact … Continue reading Turning up the Heat
Today (the day I wrote this) is Labor Day in America. The day everyone takes it easy and has a picnic, signifying the end of the summer before going back to work. All Western cultures seem to have this day, this moment, when we all get back to business. The French say Bon Rentree and try to preserve their tan as long as possible. The … Continue reading Artnotes: A Lively Stepper
Geraniums Red Gold Green Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 11 x 16″ 27 x 41cm 225.00 Our friend Kone(co-nay) went back to Mali. After four years of trying to get to Europe and then two years trying to fit in, he’s gone back to Mali to his wife and child. He was among the refugees that came through Libya, where they are often imprisoned, or … Continue reading Artnotes: Go, Aunt Franny
Begonias on an Indian Background Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 12 x 12 30 x 30cm 225.00 Blair and I actually watched our Internet TV this week, for the first time since last summer. We saw and heard Comey testify in front of the Senate committee. I loved hearing his eloquence: whole sentences delivered in a calm, deliberate way. I have watched other “speeches”, mostly … Continue reading Artnotes: TV
Roses in Glass Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/linen 12 x 12 30 x 30cm The birds perch at the edges of the lawn, cocking their heads side-to-side; butterflies can’t light – their world, which existed for the past two months, has been destroyed in one fell swoop: The Mower. Two or three times a summer, the giant mowing tractor, with its sweeping blades, tears … Continue reading Artnotes: The Mower
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