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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Umbria, Italy - Oil Painting


This is the first oil painting I've done in over 35 years. The subject are fields in Umbria, a region of Italy just east of Tuscany. The strange color of the soil is due to its volcanic origins. I painted it from a photograph that I took along the road.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry Davis Thoreau