White flag2  0 2  5  watercolors on paperHello all dear Hivers friends and welcome back to my blog. Today I am sharing my personal depiction of a war scenario where a central figure raises, in a last desperate gesture, a white flag. Personally, I am truly concerned and sickened by all the wars in the world. I feel a sense of disgust in front of the massacres of children and civilians, defenseless population that has nothing to do with war at all. We have little chance to change this horrible trend, I talk about it almost every day with my students and sometimes we try to express it through art forms, but unfortunately it is not enough to stop genocides like in Gaza. I leave you with my painting and steps. Greetings to all. Armando.

Lunch under the arches2  0 2  5  watercolors on paperHello everyone dear Hivers friends and welcome back to my blog. Today I am sharing a typical Florentine glimpse where under a Renaissance cross vault we have a restaurant. I did a quick sketch, first in pencil and then in watercolor trying to quickly illustrate the scene. I tried to represent the whole scene in the impressionist manner without too much attention to detail but looking for the historical and artistic atmosphere of the setting.

Hell - Lucifer2  0 2  5  watercolors on paperOf course, I could not miss this unique and unrepeatable event that the Infantry Museum in Rome organized. A great exhibition on the great artist Salvador Dali founder of the artistic current of Surrealism.

The staircase in green2  0 2  5  watercolors on paperHello everyone dear Hivers friends and welcome back to my blog. After a long series of sunny days I was inspired to representene a glimpse rich in light. So I drew a staircase filled with pots with plants from which we can see a glimpse of the sea. I also included two cats enjoying the day. So the basic idea was to represent sunlight on a beautiful typical foreshortening that would put us in a good mood, and relax us just like the two cats I painted.

Hello everyone dear Hivers friends and welcome back to my blog. It's been a few days since my trip to Poland and now I decided to share my experience and show you photos of this wonderful city. Kraków is an ancient city in the south of Poland and its name in Polish “Stołeczne Królewskie Miasto Kraków,” means Royal Capital City of Kraków and has been the capital of Poland for centuries.

Glimpse of life in the village2  0 2  5  watercolors on paperHello all dear Hivers friends and welcome back to my blog. No sea today, in the sense that the watercolor subject I am sharing is a glimpse of a typical Tuscan village in Italy. I thought of representing a corner of life in this village, with all the characteristic elements of medieval villages. So I stood under a Roman stone arch and observed the street, perhaps the main one, with two parallel rows of trees on either side. I inserted a fountain and the inevitable fortification tower typical of defensive walls. I painted a rather vivid sky to highlight the color contrasts with the ochres of the houses. I hope you like it, I leave you the numerous steps of the creative process and my best regards to all.