Hello hivers, an happy Friday to you all! Another very hot day here, the Sun is shining on the sky like a big boiling ball and so, for the health of our "old bones", we spent the most part of the day inside our home. It's not a problem, because our home is also our place to work and even if I felt the need to breath a little the fresh air (we go out to relax our minds just after the dinner, when the Sun is falling down) I'm pretty sure I will "survive" to the next very hot days. 😃This morning, as usual, I woke up soon to work onwith my brushes and colors during the first, cooler hours of the day and, in the following pics, you can see a painting I just finished:As you can see, the subject a woman with long black hair and a long dress with different patterns. I like to decor the dresses of my usual Characters and so here I am. ^_^ This piece is a mixed media (acrylic colors, oil colors and white ink) painting on 200 gsm paper in A4 size and, like I use to do, I took some pics while I was painted her so you can see some step of the process :Soon I'll add this new artwork to my Artfinder shop (link at the bottom), hoping it will find a new home!I hope you like it! See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia

Hello hivers, an happy July 25th to you all! Today is a very special day in my city (Pistoia, Italy), because every 25th July we celebrate our patron Saint James (San Jacopo in Italian) and the streets come back to the middle age thanks a beautiful parade full of people dressed up in historical costumes!To know more about the events in my city to celebrate our patron Saint I invite you to read the interesting article (in English, don't worry) In the following pics you can see what I watched direcly from my front door and, just to know, it was a very very hot day while those poor people was dressing those wonderful (but very very warm) costumes!):![DSC

Hello hivers, an happy Wednesday to you all! Another very hot day of Summer here in my area (a little town in Tuscany, in the middle of Italy ^_^ ). The Sun is shining in a strong way and my furry friend Richy is spending the most part of the day sleeping in the cooler corners inside my home, while I'm doing my best with my brushes and colors close to the fan. 😀 My mind and my hands looks a little slowly during these hot days, but this morning, during the first cooler hours of the day, I worked on a new painting and so now I can show you the final result:A detail of the painting:As you can see, the main subject is a little one close to a tree where I placed one of my usual tiny scenes about home. I like to image little tree houses, it reminds me to the childhood (even if the only "tree house" I had when I was a child was just a piece of wood on a branch of a tree close to my granny's home!). It's a mixed media (acrylic colors, oil colors and white ink) painting on 200 gsm paper in A4 size and, like I use to do for you, I took some pics while I was painted it :Soon I'll add this new artwork to my Artfinder shop (link at the bottom), hoping it will find a new home!I hope you like it! See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia

Hello hivers, an happy Monday to you all! During these hot days of July, me and my hubby @paolobeneforti started to do our usual daily walk along the side of the river close to my home after the dinner, when the air is cool enough to enjoy to stay out of home. We use to see a lot of ducks there and also different kind of herons, included, since some days, a black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax). You can read more about this kind of heron This morning I woke up soon to work on the portrait of the Nycticorax during the first, quiet hours of the day and, in the following pics, you can see the final result:As you can see, my imagination worked on a Nycticorax heron with a large belly and, instead the long white plumes on the back of the head I painted a sort of delicate branch with leaves. It's a mixed media (acrylic colors, oil colors and white ink) painting on 200 gsm paper in A4 size and, as usual, I took some pics while I was painted this funny bird so you can see the process too:Soon I'll add this new artwork to my Artfinder shop (link at the bottom), hoping it will find a new home!I hope you like it! See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia

Hello hivers, I wish you a wonderful Sunday! I hope you are spending this day in a nice or relaxed way. Here is too hot to enjoy a little time outside and so I'm spending the most part of my Sunday really in relax: sitting on the sofa watching some episodes of a tv series (the old seasons of Bones ^_^ ) and sketching in freedom on one of my sketchbooks. Before the lunch, when the air was not so hot like now, I finished an artwork I started yesterday in the late afternoon and so I can show you the final result of that piece:As you can understand watching the piece, I decided to paint the same freaky hawk I painted yesterday on a straps of paper I cut in form of paper doll (you can see it I liked the result and so I decided to paint the scene. The new piece is a mixed media (acrylic colors, oil colors and white ink) painting on 200 gsm paper in A4 size and, like I use to do for you, I took some pics while I was painted it so you can see the process too:Soon I'll add this new artwork to my Artfinder shop (link at the bottom), hoping it will find a new home!I hope you like it! See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia

Hello hivers, an happy Saturday to you all! Today, after some very very hot days, the weather is not so warm and so me and my hubby could spent some free time walking along the side of the river close to my home in a comfortable way and this was good for our minds and for our legs. 😊 Today I'm here to share with you a freaky hawk ( a paper doll) I painted this morning and to thanks 2 hivers to give me inspiration for my artworks.At first I show you the final result of the special hawk: I was inspired by one of the pics @papilloncharity (Thanks so much for the inspiration! ❤️ ) shared in the content you can read The other hiver I want to thank is @mandragora88 who, in a comment, told me about the swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. Just to know, she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and her novels are simply fantastic. During the past hot days I spent my free time in a special way: reading some of her short novels published in the italian version by the publishing house called Iperborea:I think this community is really fantastic, not just because we can exchange experiences and thoughts with people so far from us, but also because we can receive a lot of inspirations and, sure, positive vibes and this is great! ❤️At now, my mind is really full of new idea and I can't wait to work on some of them, but in the meantime you can see the work in progress of the freaky hawk in the following pics: