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Thanks for coming here, take a sit and have a visit.

This is my blog, I paint in watercolor media, that's my way, that's what I am.

No favourite subject, just my fantasy and what life suggests me.

I paint also commission, contact me directly for that.

Loredana

P.S. I forgot to ask you to be patient with me, I write in english but that's not my mother tongue, and believe me, I try to do my best to express my thoughts and feelings.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Torino - Venerdì 27 Marzo ore 18:00 - La forma dei segni nei colori

Siete ovviamente tutti invitati a partecipare.


"LA FORMA DEI SEGNI NEI COLORI"

" 5 artisti per 5 tecniche diverse...
Olio, Acquerello, Incisione, Tecnica Mista e Ceramica,
un incontro a tutto tondo con l'arte e con le sue varie sfaccettature."

Presentazione a cura di Davide Botto.

Mariotto Loredana
Acquerelli delle meraviglie
L’acquerello meglio di ogni altra tecnica pittorica, rende la dimensione del fiabesco, dell’onirico, dell’immaginario. Ed è perciò che Loredana Mariotto lo elegge mezzo espressivo non solo della propria personalità, ma autenticamente della propria persona. Nei suoi fogli si apre così un universo di sogni, di suggestioni, di memorie, di piccoli luoghi meravigliosi la cui sincerità non sarebbe possibile se non fossero davvero lo specchio di un mondo interiore.

Migliore Giuseppe
Materiali senza limiti
Non si può in alcun modo inquadrare il lavoro di Giuseppe Migliore in qualche comoda categoria artistica. Rifiutando qualsiasi vincolo, l’artista si diverte ad utilizzare i materiali più inconsueti per giungere alla realizzazione di opere che, allo stesso modo si sottraggono alle classiche definizioni di figurativo e astratto.le sole cifre interpretative calzanti per l’arte di Migliore sono la spontaneità e la distanza da ogni preoccupazione dogmatica.

Agagliate Angela
Il bisogno di dipingere.
I colori con cui Angela Agugliate riempie i suoi oli, rispecchiano il bisogno “primario”, quasi biologico che l’artista ha di dipingere. Analogamente, i suggerimenti che offrono lo spunto per i soggetti originano delle impressioni colte nella vita quotidiana: le emozioni offerte da un paesaggio crepuscolare, dall’eleganza del movimento animale e della figura umana. La sua pittura è un’autentica espressione figurata delle impressioni.

Cantino di Reino Bruno
Percorsi in libertà
Il vantaggio di non provenire dall’accademia, è senz’altro quello di essere scevri da ogni artificio programmatico, scoprendo l’arte senza infilarsi in ciechi dibattiti stilistici. In altre parole: la libertà di scoprire.
Bruno Cantino, nel percorso compiuto nell’ormai lunga attività artistica, manifesta costantemente questo anelito verso la libertà, sintetizzata in modo eloquente dal percorso ideale che unisce le incisioni e i monotipi qui presenti, che di tale libertà sono la più lirica espressione.

Pessone Franca
Ceramiche e viaggi
Le ceramiche dipinta da Franca Pessone inducono a viaggi immaginari che, tra foglie, fiori e ori, conducono da bisanzio a Vienna. La caratura preziosa e onirica di questi lavori riporta come un mantra alla dimensione dell’esplorazione, che del resto è metaforicamente quella che compie l’artista quando utilizza la pittura come catarsi. Ci si perde nei luoghi e nei tempi, ma ci si ritrova nel sé: questo comunica l’arte di Franca Pessone.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Geranium - Geranio

Geranium.

Watercolor and black indian ink on Arches 140lbs paper 9 x 12 inches

I alreadyy had a paint that had this green border, I decided to give a brother for the art show, so it won't be alone on the wall.

Daphne

Watercolor and black indian ink on Arches 140lbs paper 9 x 12 inches

Monday, March 16, 2009

Porticciolo all'Elba - Elba's arbor.



9 x 13 inches - Watercolor on Arches paper.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Japanese Lady

I never thought that preparing a show could be like having a nap, but neither thought it was so stressful I made this one to relax the mind. It helped!



8x8 inches
Watercolor on Arches 140lbs paper

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Alfa Romeo

This is my last work, it's an Alfa Romeo C6 2500 tagged Pininfarina Design, I' think it's right age is around 1935-40
Surely it's considered a museum piece but it's lovely to see it running in our streets.


13 x 10 inches.
Watercolor on Favini 180lbs paper.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Diamond Ring - ACEO



Watercolor on Fabriano 140 lbs paper.

This year the E-bay ACEO group has again involved its members in the fantastic Double ACEO Playing Card Deck.

I won the 6 of Hearts.

Due to the number six (also called the Devil number) and due to hearts, the sign of love, I've thought to what seduces love more than love itself: a diamond ring.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Cutlery triptych - Posate trittico

This is a triptych, the measures of each one are 7 x 20 inches (17 x 51 cm)



Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Tagged

It seems that I've been tagged! :-) Three times by:

Lori
Leola
and
Deb

This means that I thanks a lot my dear friends who choosed me in billion pool of blogs here in the net.
This also means also that I have to write something new and strange about myself

The rules of the Blogger's Tag game are:
1. put a link in your posting about the artist that tagged you.
2. write 5 -7 unusual things about yourself.
3. tag 5 - 7 other Bloggers and let them


1) Mine is not the worst allery in the world, but it's quite invalidating, I'm allergic to... Mint! I can't wash my teeth with normal pastes, I can't cure a throatache and I can't eat most of chewing-gums.

2) I played basketball in the major Italian Legue, (also if I'm quite short for a basketball player).

3) When I was joung I didn't attended an artist school because one of my school mates was better than me in drawing. I thought she was fine for an artist school and not me. Probably she did something else in her life, I still eat my nails for not attending it.

4) I married a man who is the exact opposite of me... The last thing he cares of is art!

5) I've been working for 15 years on computers, now I enjoy it!

6)There's a song I know since I was a little (less than one year) baby, it's a Brazilian song who's words I know in italian, no-one ever translated it, it's called "voce abuso".

7) I can still remeber the map of the home I lived in until I was 2, I can remeber exactly many particulars that turned to be real and that both my parens didn't remember. Actually I find very diffcult to say what I cooked yesterday for dinner.

I will tag some friends:

1) Chelsea, I met her today, she's a so kund American girl, she lives a few miles far from my home.

2) Carol in Tel Aviv, a wonderful watercolor painter from this side of Earth.

3) Theresa because of her uncommon fantasy.

4) Melanie A sweetheart inside a painter.

5) Jelanie I admire her works!

6 Viki, have alook at her paints, what is she if not a talent?

7) Jillian She's the one that introduced me to Watercolors wet and wild, I'll never stop to Thank you Jillian for this.

I'll tag one more person, she is an artist and she's one of the most kind person I know here in the web, she's Sandra!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Pretty in Red! - Carino in rosso!

Watercolor 13 x 10 inches on 180 lbs Favini Torchon Paper, painted with Winsor & Newton artist's paints.

This is an old (1970 circa) Italian telephone, most of our homes had it in turtle-dove color or in black, but I can hardly remember that there were also in pomegranate and dark-green.

Forgive the pink background, the paper is bigger than my scanner and the edge of the sheet takes the shadow of the paint below (which is obviously white)

I'm not sure if this is the last version of this paint, I need to add something, but I'll come back on it later.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Mardi Gras TW - Who are you Masquerine?

This ACEO is appositely made for the TW "Mardi Gras" of this month. This is a little masque I had when I was a little girl, my parents couldn't buy me a real costume every year and often I used a simple masque to partecipate to Carnival Parties.


Thursday, January 22, 2009

Underwood #5

Here am I, back.
Have a lot of work to do, I'm preparing my very first show... so very happily I'm jumping head down on painting with my brain full of ideas.

This is the first:

Watercolor on Favini 180lbs artist paper painted with Winsor & Newton artist's paints. 13 x 10 inches.

This is a typewriter, the glorius Underwood model Number 5, a museum piece and one of the most appreciated ever.

I love those old objects that also if not very easy to use bring back memories and feelings.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

A hard time...

It's been a hard month here. At first my Dad's surgery, than his pneumonias, in the end, on Dec 29th he's left his life and us...

It's been like loosing a hand, it's like loosing something that you've ever had. You feel alone with him and with his absence.

It will pass, I'm here waiting for the time to go by.
Brushes are dry at moment, but I'll be back soon, that's what he wanted from me!


My Dad, My Angel

Monday, December 1, 2008

A little world - ACEO

This month's Theme Week of the ACEO E-bay group is "snowglobes"
I enjoyed so much painting this little mices and imagine them alive inside the globe.




About This Piece:
Watercolor on 140 lbs Canson Paper painted with Winsor & Newton artist's paint, black indian ink and white water base marker
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What's a snowglobe if not a little world.

The fortunes of snowglobe isn't in the object itselfs it's in what you can see inside, a little world that makes you dream and brings your mind into a tale, a moment that keeps life and tousands snowflakes steal a wisheper.

Our little mices are still skating, as time goes by you shake the globe and can still say "Look it's snowing!!!"

Friday, November 28, 2008

Is this really for Santa?" - ACEO

I painted this on the wave of the Holy season.
Some years ago I bought my sons a terrific book by Nick Butterworth called "Jingle bells", also now that both are quite big they coninue to ask me to read the story for them and I love to this because it has so many beautifyl images.
This is why I associate the Holy Season with mices.
I hope you'll like this my new little ACEO called "Is this really for Santa?".


Watercolor on Fabriano 140lbs paper painted with Winsor & Newton artist's paint.


In the house everybody's sleeping... waiting for the old nice man. The dark is enlighten only by a candle that shines in the night. A shadow comes through the living room and reaches the ligh attracted by the sweet fragrance of the gingerbread biscuits and coffee. Maybe a taste... but: "Is this really for Santa???"

Friday, November 14, 2008

New York Santa - ACEO


ACEO - Watercolor on Fabriano 140lbs Artist's paper painted with Winsor & Newton Artist paints.

Three years ago, me and my family went to New York for a Christmas short vacation. It was our first time in USA and everything sounded so special and so different from home. Manhattan was a "tourbillon" of colors the trafic was terrific, and people was so frenetic in their christmas shopping.

We walked for miles and our feet were burning by this, but we stood outside from 7 o'clock in the morning, 'till midnight trying to see everything an all.

This Santa Clause remained in my mind, and I painted him in the way I can remember, because he was the only person remained in the street in a lonely night, shaking his bell in a corner of a street. I talk with him for a while with both my two children watching as if was dialing with a ghost!

You tube... to enter in the Holy Season

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Please Mom, can I keep it? - ACEO


ACEO 3,5" x 2,5"

Watercolor on Fabriano 140lbs Artist's paper painted with Winsor & Newton Artist paints.

What can a poor little girl do when she finds a poor little cat abandoned in the street???
No replay, please. We're enough in this home!


CLICK HERE TO BID

Let's go home - ACEO

ACEO 3,5" x 2,5"
Watercolor on Arches 140lbs artist paper painted with Winsor & Newton Artist paints.

All over the world, at Christmas time we can see little mouses busy in the research of the "Perfect Christmas Tree".
Obviously anyone wants to have the most beautiful, this is why the hunt starts very early in the season.
Our mice has been very lucky and found the one that fits to his ideal, the main work now, is to drag it at home, the main hard work!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Down The Hill - ACEO

ACEO 3,5" x 2,5"
Watercolor in Fabriano 140lbs artist paper. Painted with Winsor & Newton Artist's paints.
In a winter sunny day, what's better than sliding down the hill with your wood-sleigh?
This little mouse knows that so well and enjoyes the winter wonderland.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Welcome new Mister president

I woke up this morning and I discover that not only USA have a new President, but the whole world has someone new to watch with faith and hope.

I decided I had to give my tribute to him

ACEO Watercolor on Fabriano 140 lbs Paper