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Cortona, Italy

In October 2007 I was fortunate enough to live in a small hill town in Italy called Cortona. It is truly a magical place, filled with great people, great food and architecture. I will never forget my experience there as it changed my life. Below are writings, drawings and paintings I made while I was
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How to Draw at the Lake

  How to Draw at the Lake  Sit in the chair where the fishermen sit. You may have to find the one that is plastic as anything with cloth is so smelly that you can not sit in it. Cast your image with a small concave mirror onto a sketch page and gently draw with
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The Church Vasari Finished

I walk down a little road and hear the sound of my feet crushing gravel. At the end of the wind there is a church. The outside door is open, but the thin inner door, of untempered glass and wood that rattles when I try to open it, is always closed. There are no cars
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Painting San Niccolo

  I have been painting. In the day time, up the hill, not to the top but to the small church. My back pack is filled with tubes of oil paint, a tin of turpentine, the brushes I like with brown handles, a ham sandwich wrapped in paper and plastic, un-absorbent paper towels, special aged
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Drawing San Niccolo

If you have never seen Van Gogh’s drawings, the large ones, you should. They are beyond compare and amazing. I am sitting behind the church San Niccolo on a little gravel road nestled on someone’s stoop with my sketch book. There are cats, lots of cats. There are even two little cats. There is also
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Daily Drawing September 18th, 2008

Ok so they can’t all be winners but it was great to fall into a lecture by accident and draw while the novelist read.