Paesaggio con Cipresso ( Landscape with Cypress tree)

This painting stems from sketches and photos done in my last trip to Tuscany. A field of Poppies and a lone Cypress trees in the countryside near Siena.
I am going back soon and I will sketch again and take hundreds of photos of my beloved Tuscany.

Paesaggio con Cipresso is a large 24x30" oil on canvas. It can be viewed/purchased at Buckland Southerst Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

Just an update: this painting was just sold September 23rd, after only 5 days since I brought to the gallery. I am working on a 30x30" oil painting of trees now, it should be finished in couple of days. I will post it here of course!

On the way to Siena

Driving from Florence to Siena in a small red car with my friend Camilla (she was the driver, a fast one, a real Italian) I screamed "stop the caaaaar!" In front of us was the most perfect Cypress lined road, the kind of place I have imagined for a long time and I was eager to immortalize in a painting. I always carry both my sketchbook and my camera. I need both as the pen gets what the camera doesn't. It was early morning and the trees projected long shadows on the gravelly road. Blue sky with puffy clouds, the perfect day and a perfect image of Tuscany.
Back in my studio a month or so later I produced this painting " a day with Camilla"
Oil on canvas size 20x24"