17 September 2012
Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 29. Barga Silhouette
Monet painted the same scenes over and over because the light changed from one moment to the next, continually giving him new subjects.
Barga is like that. When you look down on to the little town that lies between the Apennines and the Apuane Alps it constantly changes as mists drift up the valley of the Serchio River.
This was painted from a low wall a short distance from where we stayed; as I quickly laid the wash a viper came sinuating along the wall and then stopped, looking at me. I finished, half panicked, then the snake and I took off in different directions as if a gun had been fired!
Art is dangerous.
© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz