Perseo e Medusa Oil on Wood / 50 cm x 70cm / by Matthew Holden Bates Painted in Firenze, Italy in 2018 in the artist’s studio ©️Matthew Holden Bates / All Rights Reserved Perseo e Medusa (Detail) Perseo

Via del Corso / oil on canvas - 80cm x 130cm - private collection - ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved This large scale painting was inspired by a very lucky chance of light and a rapid fire camera

Koi Statue - Mosaic on Ceramic - ©Matthew Holden Bates, Firenze When I started this blog I really wanted to talk about my painting, my art, I don't know, my life? Yea, that is what this is about, my life,

Duomo Painting Project / San Matteo Niche Detail This painting has become very intense for me, I had no idea when I started it that the details would be so intricate. I am painting a part of the facade

Piazza Frescobaldi - oil on canvas -150cm x 85cm - private collection ©2003, Matthew Bates, All Rights Reserved For Throwback Thursday I decided to share a painting which is from the beginning of my career,

“Yellow Tulips” oil on canvas - 40cm x 40cm - ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved I am hard at work on my Duomo Project and I will be posting the next segment in the series soon. It has been really

Little Pink Rose - Oil on Canvas - 30cm x 40cm - private collection ©️Matthew Holden Bates Yesterday I was working in the garden, and I was reminded of this little painting I made a while back. I hope

“La Primavera” oil on canvas - 60cm x 80cm ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved (private collection) Happy Spring Everyone!!!! Here is a painting ‘from the archive’ to brighten your day 👋😀 A presto,

Duomo Project Work in Progress by Matthew Holden Bates In my last post I said that I was going to finish the San Matteo niche, but as it happens, I didn’t go in that direction. I spend a lot of time staring

Duomo Project / San Matteo Detail (Oil on Canvas) I’ve been hard at work on my Duomo Painting Project. I got some new brushes to work on fine details, and a new medium to help smooth out the paint and

“Wile E Coyote” oil on canvas / 30cm x 30 cm / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Happy Sunday Everyone! I have been working hard on my Duomo Project, but it seems too soon to post an update.

Front Door Project For a while now I have been working on making my apartment a fun place to be. The front door / hall area was a bit dreary, my apartment is half underground so the lighting can be very

Duomo Painting Project / work in progress / St. Matthew detail When I am working on such a large canvas, especially one that is almost all detail work, I like to get one section going so that the composition

Duomo Project / St. Matthew detail / work in progress It has been a busy week of painting, and this canvas is so big that it feels like I didn’t even make a dent! It is also true that in the beginning

Duomo Project / drawing detail by Matthew Holden Bates Well, 18 hours later...... I finally have finished the preparatory drawing using my spolvero techniques which I described in my last enstallment.

"After the Flood" oil on canvas - 75cm x 100cm ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Sometimes this happens to me, just when I am about to start a big project, another painting, in this

Matthew Holden Bates up on a ladder starting the trace for his newest Duomo Painting Hey Everybody, I guess we are off to the races. The first part of the process is to transfer by hand the idea of the

Matthew Holden Bates contemplating the brand new pristine white canvas that will be the next painting. Hi Everybody! I have decided to document on Steemit the making of "My Next Duomo Painting".

I am excited to announce that "Piazza Santo Spirito" is in the window at Galleria Maestrini in Firenze, Italy! You may remember in one of my last posts I talked at legth about this painting.

Following up on the enthusiasm for my last post about my oil painting “Mercato di San Lorenzo”, I decided to make a short video so that you can see the painting in a room, in real life. Here is the painting,