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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Italian Vacation and St. James Art Fair

"Tuscany Abbey Spinota" pastel 16"x12"
What does my vacation to Italy have to do with the St. James Art Fair? I'll be showing some of my newest drawings from my trip to Florence and Tuscany at the fair this weekend. Come see me in booth #912 on 3rd Street.  Sorry for the very blatant promotion but I'm off to set up for the fair in about 1/2 hour and don't have time for the needed narrative to tell you all about the wonderful places I saw and food, oh the food. Not to mention the wine.I observed so many things in Tuscany while working on my plein air drawings. For instance, can you see the plow lines in the hillside in the orange/tan field. Yes, the lines are going straight up the hill which a farmer in America would never do, but in Tuscany the land is very, very heavy clay and apparently it doesn't erode ( or already has eroded away all the top soil) and they plow with bulldozers. Yep, bulldozers! I saw one. So up the hillside they go. In the springtime this hill would probably be planted in wheat to make their wonderful pasta, of which I ate twice a day.
"Tuscany Farmland" pastel 20" x 40"


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Many of my pastels are created on location/en plein air and in the blog content I like to tell you why I'm interested in recording this moment in time. But in the winter, I'm pushed back to my studio which presents a fresh set of possibilities.

Also, I teach pastel workshops in the winter when I'm not involved with the art fair circuit. As part of that teaching mode I like to give information about color, composition and content as well as supplies.

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Marianna McDonald
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
In 2001 I left my management job at the local newspaper to become what I always dreamed of - a full-time artist. I work mostly in pastel but sometimes in oil. I participate in 12 art fairs a year.
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