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Here I am again in this 2025 that has just begun. As per tradition, I make truckloads of resolutions that are lost in thin air by December and return on January 1, 2026 so, this time, I decided to break this tradition, break this routine and turn habits upside down by avoiding making resolutions (those that I cannot keep with certainty). In these first days, I confess, I am seized by a deep…

Lesson number five…at least I think it’s the fifth lesson: surround yourself with people who make you feel good and accept you as you are. My job is made up of bureaucratic commitments, social contact with children, parents and colleagues and lots of intellectual stimulation. It seems simple but you never rest. Many people only see class time with students but don’t know the behind the scenes.…

Lesson number four: don’t keep everything One of the lessons I have learned recently, perhaps the most important of all, is: give up the superfluous things. To make room for new sketchbooks to draw, I realized that my library was full of old drawings, many of which were nothing more than incomplete and ugly scribbles. Usually Danny Gregory (now my guru and teacher of artistic life on sketchbook…

Third lesson: you don't have to leave your comfort zone.

Third lesson: you don’t have to leave your comfort zone. Over the years I have heard myself say “leave your comfort zone”, or “you have to leave your comfort zone to experiment”. Maybe I never had a comfort zone because I spent years (and spent a lot of money) experimenting with different techniques, trying different pens, pencils, brushes and materials and…I perhaps found my favorite tool. I…

Free your mindAnd the rest will follow (En Vogue) Lesson number two: drawing is like meditating, that is, you don’t have to put your mind to it. It seems easy written like this, but it is less easy to apply this principle. When you are a child you sit at the table or on the floor with your crayons, colored pencils or watercolors and drawings and time flies. You don’t think, you just draw. As we…

First lesson I relearned: you don’t need a professional sketchbook to draw! Obviously if you want to use watercolor or other media I recommend a professional product, but there is nothing better than a pennies notebook and a ballpoint pen to feel free again. Every time I bought a new sketchbook I had a crisis on the first page or stopped as soon as I thought I couldn’t draw well (practically 89%…

It’s difficult to return to the blog when you haven’t dedicated yourself to it in…how long? Three years I think, certainly since my father’s death. What has changed? Nothing in essence, and everything inside me.In all honesty, I don’t know if I will continue because I realize that I am discontinuous, not due to a lack of passion for drawing, but because every now and then I suffer sudden stops in…

There are times when I do nothing but work, then I see a fanzine and here I want to do ... but how? Let's find out together some help to create a digital fanzine.

Fan…Zine After months and months, and other months, of silence since the last article written, I am writing here again, leaving the message in the bottle that will be lost in the immense ocean of the web. This year I painted the portrait of my father, of my granddaughters (at the request of my sister), gave a picture that I really cared about and made a copy of that picture asked of me by a…

Art spoke by launching a message that went beyond the set of notes on the score and reached people's hearts

I saw the Eurovision song contest recently, for once in streaming on a national channel (RAI, here in Italy). I admit that I had so much fun listening to, evaluating and writing down liked songs, that I hope to recover the previous Eurovision and, I hope, the next ones as well. Refined, elegant, delicate and with a song that touched me some chords, even if only musically. Before even hearing the…

Two hearts, one passion

Today I did not want to put myself at the easel between acrylics and canvases, I have many ideas in my head but little desire to do. Today is one of those days when I just want not to think, just draw. Sometimes, however, the inspiration does not want to know, especially when you just want to draw, it is mischievous as a monkey.These are the moments when I take from photos that they sent me or…

Project ... missing..heeeelp!

Break … with film: Big eyes

A break from portraits takes every now and then, and I decided to take it … Usually I take breaks from painting to see if I really like a painting, but I draw on the PC or on an iPad, or watercolors. Other times, I watch a movie or read a book. I recently happened to watch a movie I had wanted to see for a long time, but in my usual procrastination. Yesterday I looked at it and it hit me like a…

Dad’s portrait :work in progress

I had finally done the pencil drawing on canvas, nothing more difficult. I thought that having already drawn Dad, drawing him bigger would be easy … no! One way or another, among several erasures, I managed to do it quite satisfactorily. Now it was just about coloring it … coloring … yeah … just coloring, what do you want it to be? Coloring is my beast, my nightmare, the terror of failure is…

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Let’s take a day when I’m looking for inspiration, add the myriad art books to my left, a pinch (but also two) of Schiele and a Wacom Cintiq at hand, with subscription to Clip Studio paint.Without thinking, without planning, straight away and for pure pleasure, this unknown woman takes shape before my eyes, undecided whether or not to remove that sheet. I love Schiele, I admit it, and I like it…

There are those who are pyramids … I am sphere

It happens that you subscribe to a portal for painters to see if maybe, in your spare time, you can sell something. It happens that the first time you sign up comes as your first contact … a scammer who generously wants you to have your large inheritance from someone who has the same surname as you. I dismiss it as nonsense and continue to paint and move on. In the meantime I am shipwrecked…

We are our own worst enemies, often without knowing it

Since I bought the Wacom Cintiq I have hardly been drawing on paper anymore, except for a few visual notes. The truth is that maybe they are like children, but with the difference that I exploit the new toy to the full and do not get bored soon. This is not what I want to talk about today. I haven’t slept for days, at least not well, I wake up very early and don’t go back to sleep right away. Do…

Some time ago mom commissioned two paintings from a friend of hers: one with the portrait of mom and dad together and the other with the granddaughters. When we saw the first painting, the reaction was one of disorientation. I have to admit they look nothing like my parents. The first days when my father passed away, I drew a portrait of him after so many years of not doing it, and I did it in…