Painting Watercolors from Vacation Photos
From my archives – a watercolor of a brightly lit room in an apartment in Rome, with DCC flipping through a travel guide, plotting our path through the ancient cobblestones.
It was a family trip, which was remarkable on so many levels, including a memory we joke about years later: all five of us paused in our exploring to indulge in a large gelato every day for 10 days (the weather was hot), and all five of us lost weight on the trip.
So the moral of our story was: Heat + Heaping plates of delicious Italian Food + Gelato + Walking = Weight Loss. 🙂
Painting Becomes Personal When You Snap the Photos
When we came home, I painted images of Italy for weeks, using hundreds of photos I took on the trip.
All those photos helped etch the beauty, the history and my sense of wonder with steadfast permanence in my mind.
Painting our vacation let me stay in that beautiful country for longer than our trip, and that’s just one more reason to love the gift of painting.
Have you painted photos from a family vacation? When you look at them, does it take you back to that day, in that place?
Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you in the next post!
Belinda
Art Quote
I see no particular merit in the fact that I was an artist at the age of eleven. I was born with an ability, with music in me, that is all. No special credit was due me. The only credit we can claim is for the use we make of the talent we are given. That is why I urge young musicians: “Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. You must cherish this gift. Do not demean or waste what you have been given. Work — work constantly and nourish it. “
Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One’s work should be a salute to life.
~Pablo Casals
