Welcome to the oil painting blog of Andrea Bocedi — studio notes, painting stories and guides about original oil paintings, atmospheric landscapes, Mediterranean art and custom dog portraits in oil.
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Stories behind available paintings, studio work and finished oil paintings for collectors.
Articles about light, atmosphere, Tuscany, Sardinia, Italy and remembered places.
Guides and examples for commissioning a custom dog portrait from a photo.
Painting process, materials, plein air notes and thoughts about oil painting.
This 28 × 35 cm oil painting was painted outdoors in Monza, Lombardy, in Northern Italy. The subject is San Gerardino, a small church in Monza with a quiet architectural character and a warm Italian atmosphere. What interested me most was not a large panoramic view, but the entrance of the church itself: the shape …
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View available paintings Click Here Original art can change the atmosphere of a home in a way that prints and mass-produced decoration rarely can. A hand-painted oil painting is a real physical object — with texture, surface, colour and the visible trace of the artist’s hand. My original oil paintings for home interiors are …
Under the Tuscan Moon Original oil paintings inspired by Tuscany View this original Tuscan oil painting This small oil painting was painted in Castello di Spedaletto, near Pienza in Tuscany. I worked there in the middle of the day, in about 34°C heat. The light was very strong, but that was exactly what made the …
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Pet Portrait Commissions Custom oil paintings created from your photographs. Each work is hand-painted with expressive brushwork and classical technique. Commission a Custom Pet Portrait A custom dog portrait usually begins long before the first layer of oil paint. In this case, the portrait of Ichi started with a photo reference placed beside the canvas …
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We see images all the time now. On phones, screens, prints, posters, social media and websites. Most of them disappear after a few seconds. An original oil painting works differently. It is not only an image. It is a physical object. It has surface, texture, edges, scale and weight. You can see where the paint …
My studio is not a clean white room. It is a place of red walls, old furniture, brushes, frames, drying paintings, sketches, tools, unfinished decisions and objects that slowly become part of the work. I like this kind of space because painting does not happen only on the canvas. It also happens in the …
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These two oil portraits show my Cardigan Corgis, Patroclus and Lucius, painted from photographs but not treated as simple copies. Patroclus, three and a half years old, is cheerful, lively, affectionate and slightly shy — the kind of dog who wants closeness, but still carries a soft uncertainty in his expression. In his portrait, sitting …
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Many of the places I paint are not spectacular. A field.A riverbank.A road.A grey day.A house standing alone in the countryside.A line of trees at the edge of a meadow. These subjects do not announce themselves as important. They do not demand attention in the way famous monuments or dramatic landscapes do. But for me, …
Sardinia does not give itself softly. The light is sharp. The rocks are hard. The sea changes color with a speed that makes painting almost unreasonable. A place that seems still for a moment can suddenly become impossible to hold: turquoise turns grey, shadows move across granite, wind disturbs the surface of the water, and …
Read more “Sardinian Light — Painting the Sea, Rocks and Silence of Gallura”
There are moments in painting when the process stops being about control. Instead of constructing an image, I find myself simply observing — responding to light, color, and movement without trying to force a result. In these moments, painting becomes closer to perception than intention. I am an oil painter working mainly with landscape and …
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