I live in this world where there are many wars, many dictators and tyrants, many problems in in each of our lives. So why do I paint and draw surrealistic and fantastic scenes and subjects? I don't know

I've been missing on Hive for almost 3 weeks. I have a lot of posts from my favourite hivers to read and watch. :) I have not stopped my painting and drawing though. Here is what I made in the last weeks.

No words to add, really.

I made some portraits, pencil and watercolour. Not many sales lately, sigh. But I have new courses starting and some new pupils. Whee. The last one is not finished yet, as you can see. ;)

It's a hot summer but we are almost out of it. I hope so. I took some rest in the last weeks because of the heat and because, well, I just needed it. I didn't stop painting though. Here are my last artworks.

The subjects of my paintings lately are often woods and forests with houses or cabins, mostly in the snow. I'm looking for some coolness in this hot summer. I paint the places where I would like to be.

My wife (@silviabeneforti) and I are trying to survive the extreme heat that is hitting Italy (and probably most of the boreal emisphere, actually). We work at home so we spend a lot of time having showers,

I'm making mostly watercolour paintings in the last months. It is because of the course I hold on realistic watercolour technique: a not easy and very "meditative" technique that requires the

Hello, it's june and we have 38° already. What will happen in august? I'll tell you if I survive ;) Meanwhile, here are my new watercolours.

I teach painting, drawing and modeling for a living. I also sell my artworks but it is not enough, so... I have been teaching for around 30 years. I like it, actually. So my last artworks are for my courses

...And waiting for Barcelona (I hope we will be able to go there for the new Hivefest).

Here are the artworks I made in the last week. No more words to say, sorry. This is a video with the steps of making a watercolour

I haven't posted on Hive for 2 weeks so I have some new artworks to show you. Nine of them. Here they are:

Here are the artworks I sold in April. One on Artfinder, one on eBay. Not a big deal, of course, but better than a kick in the arse ;)

Some watercolours And two more Discworls characters in clay: Angua and Gunilla Goodmountain

New artworks

#GNUTerryPratchett March 12 2015

Lot of things to do this week. Let me just show you my new artworks :) And a oil portrait

I cooked and painted the little statuette of a Nac Mac Feegle I made some days ago. Crivens! I made also some more watecolour, as I make every day.

I teach in a course in clay modeling of my own, so I make little statues to show some examples. This very tiny one is a Nac Mac Feegle who's probably saying "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master!