17 February 2020
Sometimes it happens to paint with my eyes closed, because I am so inside what I am painting that I close my eyes and throw the liquid color into the canvas, and that is a very nice feeling! It happened in this Milan Cathedral, in the lower part, where I let the color in the fast gestures of yellow, ocher and blue transform into a form that starts from a randomness but which in reality proves to be very vital […]
4 November 2019
The tram wires in Piazza Duomo in Milan often catch my attention, because I always see them so thin that they are lost in the white of the facade. Moreover, they convey to me a sense of fragility, of smallness that makes me want to always look at them. The color of the sky in this Cathedral is very pacifying, as if all those whirling and vital movements are embraced by the colored sky. The yellow color from the Madonnina […]
24 June 2019
As I mentioned earlier, I am in Iceland right now, but I have prepared the Monday anyway! I do not hide the fact that I often paint the Cathedral of Milan, because I find it a suggestive square that always speaks to me and because it is a very appreciated subject. There is one aspect that fascinates me about this painting and it is the spatulas that are quite painful, I would say, full of continuous mistakes that are corrected […]
