Sandra Di Nardo - Paintings - Fashion

I am working on a surrealist fantasy painting called transformation.  I can't wait to post it! As soon as I finish it I will start a series on Italy.  In May my daughter and I travelled to Rome, Florence and Cinq Terre, Italy.  I was emotionally moved and drunken not with wine (although it was quite good) but with the beauty and light of this country.  During our stay in Rome, our hosts, Rosalba, Fabrizzio and Riccardo were gracious, kind and everso attentive to Sophie's and my needs.  We are both grateful for their hospitality and friendship. What struck me when I arrived in Italy were the elegant tall pine trees seen everywhere. They line the hillsides and the streets with their wonderous height, their twisting and intertwining branches holding  tufts of leaves at the end of their reach, like tall waiters balancing platters above our heads.  They will certainly be part of my next few paintings.  Ciao amic...

This drawing was originally created 9 years ago at  our family chalet in St. Donat using pencil on paper.  After the children caught some fish I cleaned and prepared it for the meal.  As I looked at the remains it inspired me to draw the detail of its texture against the natural backdrop.  Nine years later I pop it into the computer and use my pen and tablet to touch it up.   

Mandala for 2012

You are invited to visit Galerie d'Art Viva Vida  where you will find two of my paintings exhibited along side some talented artists

Maya left us last Friday for a better world.  She has the Christmas spirit though because she told me so. Here she is enjoying some Holiday fun.  Miss you Maya xxx

Water 1 - Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 36 Experience or Experiment? (in progress) Oil paint and Acrylic 24 x 30 I started this painting in 2000.  A self portrait, me, no make-up, "au naturel" with an expressionless face.  Just a study of my face as it bounced back from the mirror.  Mom had just died,  lost my job, our home and the marriage was on the rocks.  The good part was painting.  As the image bounced off the mirror, I think it brought me back.  It remained incomplete though for the next 8 years Picked it up again in 2010.  In Vince's basement and continued to work on the face.  I had aged of course but still needed to know more about this person looking back at me.  The darkness hung above me as I mixed the paint on my palette.  I think I knew what to do but was hoping the face would yell it out at me.  2011 in the living room of my cozy 1 bedroom apt.  Love it.  I feel like decorating that ...