New Paintings at Elliott Fouts Gallery

Today I delivered the following paintings to Elliott Fouts Gallery.

The Last Rose of Summer  oil on canvas 24” x 24”

Maui Flowers  Watercolor on Aquabord   12” x 12”

Autumn in the Vineyard  Watercolor on Aquabord  12” x 12”

Proud Parrot  Watercolor on Aquabord   20” x 16”

Tropical Bouquet  Watercolor on Aquabord  30” x 22”

This Saturday is Second Saturday and the Gallery will be hosting a reception for the Featured Artist John Karl Claes from 6:00pm – 9:00pm.   These new paintings will also be exhibited.  See you at Elliott Fouts Gallery, 4749 J Street, in East Sacramento.

Where in the world would you like to paint?

I am planning my Watercolor Workshops for 2012 and would like to know where in the world you would like to paint.  All suggestions welcome, well maybe not really cold places like the North Pole!

In 2011 I will be taken students to paint in Provence, France in June and the Cinque Terre Italy in September.  The France trip is full and taking names on the waiting list.  The same thing could happen to the Italy trip if you wait too long.  To learn more about both trips check out the Travel Workshops page on my website www.sandydelehanty.com.  To get all the details and itnereary on the trip to my 5 favorite little fishing villages in Italy, the Cinque Terre, click here www.ToscanaAmericana.com. 

Now, it is your turn to dream, please click on “comment” below and leave your thoughts or email me if you prefer, and let me know where in the world you would like to paint!

New Spring Watercolor Workshop Schedule

I am revamping my teaching schedule for Spring 2011, the new one will appear on my website sandydelehanty.com in a couple of days.  Here is a listing of the workshops, for details about each one please go to my website.  To enroll telephone (916) 652-4624.

Please note; this spring I will not be teaching afternoon classes, instead I am changing to workshops of at least 2 days.   Many of my students have requested this so they can finish a painting, so we will see how it works.

TUSCANY TEXTURES

2 day workshop - emphasis on techniques for creating texture

Friday and Saturday, January 14 & 15, 2011   10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

Fee $160.00

 

BEGINNERS’ WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

2 day workshop - Designed for total beginners but beneficial for self-taught painters with gaps in their knowledge of watercolor painting.

Monday and Tuesday, January 24 & 25, 2011   10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento , California

$160.00, Paper $25.00

 

BEGINNERS’ FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOP

2 day workshop – prerequisite Beginner’s Watercolor Workshop

Monday and Tuesday, January 31 and February 1, 2011   10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

 

 

FLOWER POWER

5 day workshop – create bright, bold, luminous watercolor flower paintings on watercolor paper or Aquabord (your choice).

Monday – Friday, February 7 – 11, 2011    10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

Fee $385.00

 

FINISH THOSE WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS!

2 day workshop – Bring your unfinished paintings learn composition, develop your critical eye, techniques for finishing paintings.

Saturday and Sunday, March 5 & 6, 2011    10:00 – 4:00

Sacramento Fine Art Center, 5330 – B Gibbons Drive, Carmichael, California

Fee $160.00

 

AQUABORD:  PAINTING WATERCOLORS ON CLAY PANEL

2 day workshop – no more framing under glass!

Friday and Saturday March 18 & 19, 2011    10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

Fee $160.00

 

BEGINNERS’ WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

2 day workshop – Designed for total beginners but beneficial for self-taught painters with gaps in their knowledge of watercolor painting.

Monday and Tuesday April 18 & 19, 2011   10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

Fee $160.00

 

BEGINNERS’ FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOP

2 day workshop – Prerequisite Beginner's’ Watercolor Workshop

Monday and Tuesday April 25 & 26, 2011   10:00 – 4:00

University Art Center, 2601 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, California

Fee 160.00

 

Hope to see you in a workshop,    Sandy

Positano Photo Gallery

Sitting at LAX I decide to write one more story about my vacation in Positano because I have some more photos I want to share. 

 

Positano beach scene

There seems to be two rules for sunbathing here:

1.  Show as much skin as possible (no matter your age).

2.  What little you wear should be very brightly colored.

A local painter, paints on the beach and sells his work in a nearby garden.

 

These clever people created a rocking night club inside the rocks.

An ink drawing made during lunch one day, the old watch tower watches over the 2010 beach scene below.

Local guy checks out the tourists below his balcony.

Taking Mama for an early evening stroll.

Father and son, men of the sea..

I saw this same roof design all over Santorini Greece last year.  They tell me the domes are filled with sand and it insulates the home from the heat.  The dips between the domes, create channels for the water to run off the roof into drain pipes located on the side of the house.  Very clever engineering, and so simple.

Doors of a small abandoned church.

Half way up the 72 steps to my hotel, you can stop and pray you will make it.

Church of Santa Maria Assunta

Hope you enjoyed my vacation photos and that they make you want to get out and explore the world.  Please leave comments below,  Sandy

Catching the Wrong Bus Leads to Discoveries

Positano has only one road.  It is a narrow one way loop connecting to the Amalfi Coast Road at one end of town, winding through the middle of town and connecting back to the Amalfi Coast  Road again at the other end of town.  Small orange busses make a dizzying loop around town all day long. 

One day I spend the morning photographing and exploring the town and then seeing the bus pull up at midtown I hop on to ride back up and around to the upper part of town where my hotel is located.  I think I will buy lunch in the grocery store and eat on my balcony.

The bus goes up, but instead of circling back down into to town  where I want to go,  it turns up hill on a really tiny road.  I soon realize this must be how people get to the houses that seem to hang from the cliffs way up above Positano.    Soon the only passengers are locals accept for two Germans in serious hiking gear with their walking sticks.   Locals ring a bell and get off from time to time at a lone house or a clump of 3 or 4 buildings, the bus keeps climbing.  Almost an hour goes by, I am really getting hungry but we have passed no restaurants or grocery stores.  What have I gotten myself into?

Finally the bus comes to a parking lot on top of a cliff and stops.  “Nicola” the driver says, obviously end of the line.   I ask can I ride down now, “No next bus 1 hour”.

I seem to be on top of the world, the only sign of civilization is a tiny church steeple sticking up from below the parking lot and a wall with this map on it.

I must be at the tip of the arrow. The Germans disappear down a trail and as I follow them I see a welcome sign “Ristorante St. Cruz” .   Following the trail down past a tiny church I come to a clump of buildings and walk into a lovely restaurant.  Up here?  The waiter sits me by the windows with an incredible view.

Lunch is a delicious salad at half what I have paid in Positano.  A friendly couple from Sidney took this photo in front of the windows with the view.

Here’s the view.

I used the zoom lenses to try to see if anyone was home on this yacht.

The Ausies and I catch the bus down the hill and I snap photos of a few locals that get on by waving down the bus as it comes by their homes.  

Seeing people getting on carrying small dogs makes me wonder is this how they walk the dogs?  Their cliff hanging houses have no where to walk the dogs except on this narrow road so maybe they take them down to Positano for a walk?

This is interesting, a miniature village sculpted into the cliff along side the road.  I have seen a few of them, wish I knew the story behind their creation.

Positano has so many hotels and shops you have to really look to find buildings that actually have people living in them.  My accidental trip to Nicola afforded me a glimpse of homes perched above the hustle and bustle of the tourist filled town below and the rugged people that live there.