PORTRAITS FOR LIFE

Together Old in Italy

Watercolour and ink travel sketch

I saw this old couple in Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy in April 2011, while I was on my 2 months painting trip through Tuscany. I found the scene extremely poignant, full of symbolic about life and death and age and love…It was a big challenge to try to capture this moment, I did as good as I could to hide and draw. I added the colours some hours later when we came back to our Boomobile, our tour bus… well, it is not exactly a bus, bit is a big a motorhome, but we use it for my paintings tours, so i guess the name is appropriate… it sound so much cooler than “motorhome”!!! 

Some years ago, I think it was in 2008, I did in Lisbon, Portugal a sketch of an old couple too, walking together in the street after shopping. That painting has received very much recognition since then, being featured in many places around the world, for example as magazine cover related to special themes about ageing , illnesses, etc…

I hope that my painting of an Italian couple getting olf together will have the same success.

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June 26, 2011 - Posted by Miki | art, life, men, Miki, portrait, women | art Miki, death, Italy, love, old couple, portraits, Tuscany