A Brezel from Sils

Pencil, gold and watercolours on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.
To visit Sils, click HERE!

Variation One

Soft (3B) and very soft (9B) pencil on paper.
12,5 x 12,5 cm / 5" x 5" inches.

Homage to Claes

Now you are there too... with Roy, and with Christo and with Pablo...
Omaggio a Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022).
Hard pencil (2H) on paper; 10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.
Click HERE for a very nice article about him and his soft giant objects.
The card comes from the Whitney Museum, NYC. I bought it there, November 1986.

Life / Vita

3580 x 3580 pixels.
This blog is 15 years old today.
Click HERE and scroll down for the first post!

Gautama with a Golden Apple

Buddha con una mela "Golden".
Pencil on paper; 12,5 x 12,5 cm / 5" x 5" inches.

Study for a marble Bust

Bozzetto per un busto in marmo.
Pencil on paper; 12,5 x 12,5 cm / 5" x 5" inches.

Melone al Porto / Docked melon ;-)

Ink and WC on paper. 5 x 5 cm / 2" x 2" inches.

Spoon Shadows

Ombre al cucchiaio. 3705 x 3705 pixels.

Sweet Dreams / Sogni d'oro

Papaver! Pencil and WC on paper.
15 x 20 cm / 6" x 8" inches.

Giunchiglia e Giglio

Jonquil and Lily with gold and silver.
Pencil and watercolours on paper
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches each.

Man with a blue shirt

Uomo con la camicia azzurra
Pencil and soft pastels on canvas board.
18 x 24 cm / 7" x 9 ½" inches.

Peaceful Man / Uomo tranquillo

Pencil on tracing paper. 15 x 15 cm / 6" x 6" inches.

Fireworks by the Atlantic

Happy 4th of July 2022!

Lilium martagon

A page from my album *Botany # 2*.
Gold, silver and coloured pencils.
20 x 15 cm / 8" x 6" inches.

Narcissus jonquilla

Jonquil / Giunchiglia (Narcissus jonquilla).
Liquid watercolours on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Centaurea cyanus

Cornflower / Fiordaliso (Centaurea cyanus).
Delft blue and Gold on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

More Flowers

Flower in pencil

Pencil on paper. 5 x 5 cm / 2" x 2" inches

Flowers for Vases

Study from a book of models for ceramic decorations. Watercolours on paper. 27 x 17,5 cm / 11" x 7" inches.

The Gazösa (Lemonade) Bottle

La bottiglia di gazösa. Inks on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Two Small Bottles

Due piccole bottiglie. Ink on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Three Pencils / Tre matite

Pencil on paper. 10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Page # 44: A Hard Boiled Egg

Tokhm-e Morgh-e Ab Paz!

June's Hamburger

Amburgher di giugno. Ink on paper.
10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

Still Waters 2 (A Trip by Ship # 822)

Ink on paper. 10 x 10 cm / 4" x 4" inches.

World Oceans Day

Today is World Oceans Day!

Red and Blue Cherries

Ink pencils and watercolours on paper.
15 x 15 cm / 6" x 6" inches.

Torta di frutta effects

Study for a pastel painting of a fruit cake from a 20 year old book of fruit desserts. 10 x 15 cm / 4" x 6" each. Effects are from THIS web site.

Sufi Landscape

Paesaggio Sufi. Ink and glittering watercolours on paper. 13 x 13 cm / 5"x 5" inches.