Watercolor landscape by Alberto

Italian Landscapes

I’m a self-taught aquarelle practitioner.

Art for me is a form of relaxation and meditation… planning mentally for the approach to a new subject (a still life, a landscape, a portrait…) the tools to use, the colours the paper, is already half of the journey…

Then the manual work begins, and there are lucky days when your hands go freely, the colors flow, the time is right and nothing comes to interfere…

This is when you establish a connection with your artifact, that lasts for a lifetime…

I’d like to learn to become more disciplined and bring my art impulses to the next level.

I think Drawing Academy can be the right way, for people like me who has also to balance work, family and all those things that keep you away from brushes.

The landscape below is one of my “soul places”… Is where I spent most of my childhood in the summertime. Recently I came back, and found it so changed… but still, that peaceful atmosphere is there, and it’s what I have tried to replicate in my watercolor. It’s real life and emotions captured on paper.