“Calle de le Boteghe I – Venice”

“Calle de le Boteghe I – Venice”
by Robert Leedy, 2003,
acrylic on masonite,
Collection of Mr. Fred McCord, Tallahassee, Florida

This is the original plein air painting I did of a Venetian backstreet scene. Click here to see the second studio version, “Calle de le Boteghe II – Venice” painted a year later.

This original version is much more muted in color with a more atmospheric, somber mood. Neither painting is a well-defined landscape (or shall I say, streetscape?) and lean more towards the abstract.

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Published:: October 1, 2003 / 6:03 pm

Category:: Abstract Art, Art, Artists, Italy, Leedy Artwork, Painters, Painting, Plein Air Painting, Venice, Watercolor, Watercolour

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“If I’m not painting, I’m typing.”

I began writing to combat creative block. It worked. What started as morning journals later developed into a secondary means of self-expression. Most of these selected writings were inspired by some event (usually humorous) during our travels abroad. Most are taken from emails I sent out frequently to a small audience (or, “fan base”, as I like to think.) These were not intended to be “serious” works; most were intended as a sort of log of our “adventures” and a means of keeping up with friends and family.

Many of these entries fall off the WordPress map as they go back a little further in time. I posted them with their original dates when I re-posted to WordPress, so they will not all show up in the archives’ listings but if you browse the categories, they are linkable by topic.

You may wonder about the frequent reference to the name, ‘Griswald’; this is the name Vicky & I jokingly gave ourselves as sort of ambassadors representing the notion of bumbling, culturally devoid, fashionly clueless, Americans in a foreign country.

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