Ciaotraveler Art
Oil on gallery wrap canvas 12"x12"
The Lavender Bike of Cortona, Italy
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Painting is a hobby to me since my retirement from a long career in Education. Inspiration for my subjects comes from my travels to Europe and my love for beautiful things. I've never taken any coursework in colored pencils but I do study up on the methods. More on my art background here .
COLOR PENCIL PAINTINGS
Most artwork is 8"x10" (11"x14"mat & cello wrap)
The Walk in Sicily was recently featured in the
21st Annual Color Magazine Member Show see here
The Victoria Hotel, Taormina, Sicily selected for the Annual Color Pencil Hidden Treasures Magazine Volume 7
Magnolias in England
Shabby Blue 182
Courtney's Colours 181
Magnolias 184
Purple Door II
Mooving on...179
Relaxing in Castelmola, Sicily
Tea Time 188
Pienza Pup (Pienza, Italy) 187
Char'Lee Pickles
Victorian Garden Tea 186
Vintage Day
For Valentine's....
Cupcakes 174
Home Sweet Gnome 171
Old Town Bucket and Pink Lilies
Rae Dunn Tiered Tray Lemon Joy
Heart Rae Dunn The Bluebird Shop Display
For Christmas...
Plaid Ribbon and Christmas Balls Ribbon Pinecone
The Gnome Series
No place like Gnome...
Christmas Gnome Sold Christmas Ball Jars
Lemons Cotton Arrangement
Succluents 4 Flower Basket by the Pond
Morning Entry Pink Fiat Party!
The Purple Door Sold Sunny Flowers in Chippy Enamel Pitcher
Sunday Picnic The French Post Box
Mushrooms, Olives, Oil The Fruits of Sorrento
Lavender and Lace
Gary's Toys and Boys (12x17) (For Gary) Commission
Festive Fess Parker Wine Lavender and Linen
Home from Market
Dried and Not Forgotten (11x14)
French Country Blues (11x14)
Sleepy Kitty in the Library Tea & Macaroons and China
Corner Roses
Old Books
Old Rusty
Corner Coffee Succulents in the Corner
Old Stone Building Door
Champagne ("Winsome Nest" Photo Reference) SOLD
Fall Pots & Pumpkins ("Winsome Nest" Photo Reference)
Yosemite Valley River
Keep On Travelen' Pink Fiat Traveler
Gavi di Gavi Lemon Wine Cooler
Old Pitcher and Cotton SOLD
Olive Oil, Copper and Wood Textures
A Story and Wine
Edgy Roses
Tulips in Stone Pitcher
Rusty Enamel Pots and Pink Peonies Sold
Big Sur Coast
Bahamas Beach Break Picnic
Berry Berry Good
French Maison
Baby's Got the Blues
Pampered Puppy
Rustic Picnic at Home
Rusty Pails and Picket Fence
Berry Goods
Ciao! (Ciaotraveler Art Show Sign)
Peeping Out the Window
White Dove and Cactus
MANY MORE PENCIL PAINTINGS FOLLOWING
THE OIL AND ACRYLIC PAINTINGS....
OIL AND ACRYLIC PAINTINGS
12x14" Oil on Gessobord
Window Around the Corner in Italy was inspired by posthumous painter Mangliardi.
I've seen hundreds of beautiful windows with flowers in Europe so I devoted an entire post on portals and doors in Europe on Ciaotraveler.
22x28" Oil on Acrylic on canvas
The Church in Cortona
12x12" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
This is the popular Au Veux Paris shop in France often seen on Pinterest.
I added a sitting bench inspired by Susan Rios for enjoying the setting. Voila!
Paintings Inspired by Other Artists
Here are a few of my oil paintings attributed to Mikki Senkarik:
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
Courtyard in Italy
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
The Red Door
Sunny Fields Oil on Gessobord
12x12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
The View in Sorrento
Oil on Gessobord
The Poppies
12x12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
Walk to the Beach
More...
22x28" Oil over Acrylics on Canvas
Morro Rock (Sold)
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Acrylic on canvas
Living the Charmed Life
Beach of Blues Acrylic Painting on 18x24 Canvas SOLD
Prim Pumpkin Oil
Oil on Canvas
"Looking at Capri" the rocks on the south side of Capri Island from my visit.
(This photo is distorted)
"Tule River" (Fully Framed)
Out for Repair
18x24 oil on Acrylic Canvas
"Dreamy Village and Lavender Fields"
18x24" Oil on Canvas
"Pienza" a quaint hilltop town in Tuscany that I love.
Gallery Wrap Canvas
"Staci's Wine Room" Sold "Cup and Cookies" inspired by Victoria Mag.
18x24" Acrylic on Canvas
"Cambria View" Sold
Inspired by the "Castle Portovenere", Cinque Terre, Italy.
22x28" Acrylic and Oil
"Teal Tule River"
14x16" Oil on Gessobord
"French BnB"
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
A greeting card and all of the tiny cars I saw in Pienza inspired me to paint
"Little Yellow Fiat in Italy"
Oil on Gallery Wrap on Canvas
"The Water Villa of Tuscany" Sold
18x24" Oil on Canvas
"The Afternoon Break" in Cambria, CA.
Gallery Wrap Canvas
The"Capri Parfumerie" on Capri Island.
18x24 Acrylic on canvas
"Britain's Lavender Fields"
Inspired by Victoria Mag.
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
"Boho Style"
14x16" Oil on Gessobord
"Farmhouse Roses" inspired by a Victoria Mag.
Oil on Canvas
"Stream Behind the Village"
Oil on Gallery Wrap
"Farm House Corner of the Room"
Framed 22x28" Acrylic on Canvas
"The Farmhouse White Room" (Framed) inspired by Victoria Mag. photo
14x14" Oil on Paneled Gessobord
"The Peach Balsamic" from Cambria
22x28 Oil on Acrylic Canvas
Cambria Beach Window.
Inspiration was a poster and looking out my window. Sold
13x16' Oil on Gallery Wrap
Orvieto
12x12" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
"Fun at the Beach in Cambria" was inspired by an antique sand pail.
"Small Vineyard" with a painted "mat"to frame it.
(distorted in the photo)
22x28" Acrylic on Canvas
Inspired by "Napa" magazine SOLD
Additional Colored Pencil Paintings
Most of my pencil paintings are 8x10, fit an 11x14 standard frame and have acid free mats.
A French Picnic inspired by Victoria Mag (Large Framed)
The Getty Villa Fountain, Malibu, CA. Sold
Blast from the Mary Past
Friends
Life in Lucca
French Staircase Drinks Under the Banana Tree
Fall Colors with Candles SOLD
"Happy Lemons"
Village Wedding Prismacolor
Home Cotton & Flower Jars 9x13 Sold
Romance in France
Inspired by Victoria Mag.
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Italy
"Netherlands Pond"
"Pink French Macaroons"
Les Fleurs
Lil Shelby Pup Sold
The Vintage Bunny
Retro Baby Blue Camper
Terra Cotta Fountain
Poppies at the Ocean
The Sicilian Blue Wall Pot in Taormina, Sicily
Peggy Porschen Yummies
Wine on the Rocks Prismacolor Pencils
Jo's Butterflies
The Garden Lounge in Prismacolor Pencils inspiration from Pinterest photo SOLD
"French Farmhouse"
Farm Table Macaroons/Prismacolor Pencil
The Flowers SOLD
"French Shopper"
"Terra Cotta Cactus"
Basket Full of Sunshine Sold
"Pomegranates"
"Windy Summer Day at the Lighthouse" 8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
"Water Urn" Framed 8
"The Victoria Hotel"
"French Bread Basket"
Farm Chicks (Rustic Farmhouse Frame)
"Street Cat Named Olive"
"Spello Walk"
"The Bird in Winter" Prismacolor Pencil
Ranch Chicks
New Lemons
"Farmhouse Flowers"
"French Shoppers" Prismacolor
"The Terra Cotta Pots"
8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
A Wine Kind of Day
Prismacolor Pencils 9x13
"Aqua Vase of Pink Roses" 8x10 Prismacolor
"Walking in Pienza" 8x10 Prismacolor
Blue Trailer: Prismacolor Pencils; for my friend and her dog who love to go camping...SOLD
Shabby Blues Room 8x10 (Prismacolor Pencils)
"Making a Splash with Pasta and Salad" 8x10 (Prismacolor Pencils)
Fall Picnic 8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
"A Collection of Olives" 8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
"Taormina Beauty" 8x10 (Prismacolor Pencil)
"While in Taormina" 8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
Lil Foxes SOLD
Love the Whites
Cambria Wines
Southern Porch
Run on the Beach Prismacolor
"Agri di Forza Walkway Sicily" 8x10 Prismacolor Pencils
Hotel Excelsior in Bellagio, Lake Como from one of my visits; Prismacolor Pencils.
"Pondtificate" 8x10 Prismacolor
Succulent Cup 8x10 Prismacolor
Cambria Wine Corks (photo inspiration: Cambria Wine website)
Wine on the Terrace (inspiration: Pinterest photo)
Farm House Tribute to Rae Dunn (inspiration: Pinterest/Rae Dunn ceramics) Sold
"Farm House Buckets" reference photo from Pinterest
Buffalo Checks, Lemons and Mason Jars
Rock Paintings Sold
Pointe Vecchio Bridge, Florence, Sketch with Colored Pencil and Ink
The Little Bird
"The Station House" visit to Malahide, Ireland
"Enjoying Cambria"
Dining in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy (from one of my visits)
Venice Stroll I (from a trip to Venice)
Venice Stroll II from my 2015 trip to Venice
"The Sleeping Cats of the Cinque Terre" Monterosso, Italy, from my visit.
"The Blue Door of Fiesole", Italy above Florence from one of my visits.
"Piazza of Lugano, Switzerland" public square visit.
Blue Bird
English Castle Inn
Yellow Shutters Sold
Easter Bunnies
Happy Fall Y'All
Love Pinterest Plaid
White Pumpkins In Fall
The Old View
Spring Blossoms
Lavender Rose in Shell
Pink Presents
The Italian Shopper
Pond with the Green Pot
Home in Italy
Celebrate with Wine, Cheese and Bread
Peach Lady
Early Oils and Pastels...
Oil on hand-made frame and stretched canvas
Colored Pencil Ferndale, CA. 1989
The Gingerbread Mansion, Ferndale, CA. is older pencil
drawing on paper sitting around the campfire.
Sketch of the Carter House, Eureka CA. around the campfire...
Pen and Ink
The pink Lady Eureka, CA.
Sesame St. water color for my son when he was born (1980).
Colored Pastels on Paper
Probably early 1970, I began drawing and using pastels to paint models from the magazines. I've always been inspired by the fashions of old movies.
Colored Pastel
These "model" drawings have lived through 6 moves I've made!
Pastel
I really didn't know as much about pastels at the time.
I just experimented with the medium.
13x13 Acrylic on Tile
My love of Olives, Garlic and Oil inspired this painting on large tile.
Starting the Water Villa. Olive, my Assistant
Contact LouAnn at Ciaotraveler@yahoo.com
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