Oils on canvas panel. I am grateful to the artist photographer Corrado Calamoneri for the exquisite composition that inspired this painting of mine. In a couple of days I shall gift it as a birthday present to my son, who is crazy about playing guitar & all Wild West tokens
Tag: vintage
The scullery window
A narrow scullery with a sunlit window. There are a few old rusty things on a shelf: a lantern with the glass full of soot, a milk jug with chipped enamel and a clay flower pot with a succulent. Out the window we can see an alley bordered by autumn […]
A vintage washerwoman
A vintage Dutch washerwoman, painted after this preliminary sketch. Now she is depicted in her backyard, on a cobbled area, with her zinc washing tub and her manual wringing machine, her cans and her ladles. She has been busy, the clothes she has already done are hung on several clotheslines […]
Washerwoman sketch
Preliminary sketch of a Dutch washerwoman in traditional clothes, for a future oil painting. She is doing manual laundry washing in a zinc tub, surrounded with clear water cans. A manual wringing machine is placed before her. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4.
Blowing bubbles
Vintage scene with two children blowing soap bubbles. They are standing on stools and have a zinc basin with soapy water between them, on a three-legged table. A teddy-bear lays forgotten at their feet, while they enjoy blowing bubbles. Graphite pencils on paper, size A3