The Creative Life - Barbara Trovillo

Ciao a tutti! A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.     – Edgar Degas       I agree, though I seem to struggle a bit getting there. I am guilty of first painting the scene as I see it...EXACTLY as I see it. Last week's work is a good example of that. I was working from a photo I took when fishing with my brother on the Jersey shore this summer. There are lovely subtle colors and textures in the photo. I exaggerated the colors a bit.  I liked it but it was obviously a background only. I was stumped for a minute [...]

How much easier it would have been had I known when I was a young woman that painting was going to be the overriding passion in my life.   My life was such that I married young and spent the first twenty years of adulthood creating a home and raising kids. By the time I reached the age of forty, I had realized the driving force painting was to be for me. Unfortunately, I did not have the means to do it full time. There were kids to support. I never stopped painting but everything else came first.   In some ways, this has become a [...]