My Mona Lisa... ;-)

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I am about to believe that this project, started nearly seven years ago, is my Mona Lisa... I add a brush stroke every now and then because I enjoy more doing it than concluding it.

Capsicum annuum

Bell peppers; graphite, pigment liner and water colour markers on canvas board; 10 x 10 cm (4" x 4").

Daucus carota

Carrot; graphite, pigment liner and water colour markers on canvas board; 10 x 10 cm (4" x 4").

Raphanus raphanistrum

Radish; graphite, pigment liner and water colour markers on canvas board; 10 x 10 cm (4" x 4").

Welsh onion-1 / Welsh onion-2

Welsh onion (Allium fistolosum); acrylics on canvas; 5 x 5 cm / 2" x 2" inches.

Eat Your Greens!

Dotted Wall

808 More about Pizza

808-d

808-c

808-b

808-a

808 special

Owl L4, finished

Dark, light and white charcoals on grey paper.
15 x 20 cm / 6" x 8" inches.

Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)

To know more about Armoracia rusticana, click HERE.
Watercolour on CP paper (300 g/m² - 140 lbs);
20 x 20 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Owl, lesson 4/1

For the owl, click HERE.
For the course, click HERE.

Small Pepper's Study (before tasting ;-)

The book is a beautiful reprint of *De historia stirpium commentarii insignes* by Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1556).

Pear on Paper

Graphite on R paper, CP, HP;
rough paper: 3,4 cm (1,3") x 4,3 cm (1,7").

May the Eggs Be with Us!

Graphite, gold and watercolour markers on hot pressed paper. 20 x 20 cm / 8" x 8" inches.

Old Derwent / Derwent vecchie

Old pencils (Derwent vecchie) are the best ones, by far and large. They were brought to me from London by my mother, around year 1977.

There is not much left of them, and I have so many pencils, now... but I still enjoy drawing with them, every now and then (see post below), sparingly, to have them last as long as possible.

I wonder if they are so much better then the new ones because time improves them (as it happens with watercolour paper) or if it is because the quality of those manufactured later is actually lower.

There is a third possibility, however: may be, in addition to the reasons above, these old pencils carry... the sweet flavour of love and youth.

Three Braid's Traces

Elephants in the Dark

Elephants, beware! You have been spotted by a night-vision binoculars!
Inktense colored pencils on 300 g/m² (140 lbs) Fabriano paper. 12.5 x 12.5 cm / 5" x 5" inches.

April Fools' Day

@ Lovers and Poets :-)Ai poeti e agli amanti :-)

Today, 21 March, is World Poetry Day.

Oggi, 21 marzo, è la Giornata Mondiale della Poesia.

Amaryllis!

An unexpected bloom. Pencil 2H and starry watercolours on Arches hot pressed 300 g/m²; 25 x 10 cm / 10" x 4" inches.

807 May Be

Click here and listen to the song, sung by Old Frank!

807-d

807-c

807-b

807-a

Acacia dealbata

Forsythia

Pencil and liquid watercolours on studio paper. 13,5 x 17,5 cm / 5,2" x 6,7" inches.