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i had to clean up this gallery before i could repost it in Travel. i love the light of Tuscany that i see in your pictures - and having not been allowed there myself (another long story) - I have to create my own impression with what i have at my disposal. In this digital age i can get a panoramic view of Cappella di Vitaleta and then paint it. Tuscany seems to creep into many of my paintings. It the place with a room with a view, a five-arched Ponte Vecchio, a 'house in...', rolling hills, a leaning tower (or is it?) and swirled skies.

The map tour here is a buzz - go for it! Go up to 'Map This' - CLICK - it brings up a map of Tuscany with Smug-icons on it. Go to right of map 'timeline' and press 'play'. You can use the Google slider to zoom right into the subject of the painting. I hope you have as much fun on tour as I did painting the originals. The gallery selector (for the bulk of my pix) is at top left - ' > inanga '.

The first person who comments in this gallery gets an original!

inanga
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inanga > Any Italian Town Oil, acrylic, gouache and glitter on canvas board, 2007 Kaitiaki: Sis Carol, Christchurch, Aotearoa 420mm x 320mm
inanga > Tuscany Collage Series Centrepiece by inanga, surrounding photos by mfnw and inanga, paintings by inanga collage courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 inanga
inanga > The Brow of the Hill, Tuscany detail acrylic and oil on canvas 2008 480mm x 380mm Ms P has just grabbed this one.
inanga > The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany (detail) Wow! I had just moved from paper to canvas board when I painted this. Oh, and gold leaf… What absolute magic does gold bring to a painting. It was the perfect last gasp of light at the end of a day anywhere. The Phi-spiral came well and truly to life. First that magic sky and then the land and just watch the last rays of light leaving the earth as this part goes into shadow. You can see the nanosecond, more you can see the least individual photon departing as the sun stoops behind the horizon. Unless you want pseudo-minimalist black paintings – eg Ad Reinhardt’s 'Black on Black' or a monochromatic Piet Mondrian – then you need photons to excite ideas into matter. Hey, you are not even looking at a painting unless photons are passing into your eyes, exciting the retina and being transmitted to your brain’s right hemisphere where amino acids and derivatives of tryptophan turn ideas from serotonin and melatonin into the critical appreciation you are making right at this instant. This painting is simple, simplicity itself, and yet it is really complex. You could rave on ad infinitum about what is happening here in this briefest of instants. As you read this you are creating an ever more infinite structure to the instant. The painting depicts an instant – briefer than a nanosecond – but by becoming an observer-created reality it has taken on a timelessness all of its own. As long as it is observed then it is a depiction of God and your thoughts dwell with God – this that is is what I am. Here is the painting, the last ray of light is gold leaf and it ever continues to move, cleverly conducting the last ray of light from this part of earth. I set the picture in Tuscany – because I have never been there – and as the artist I was the one into objective realizing. I painted with rich acrylic and some oil and just dropped the gold leaf onto the wet paint – it lies where it fell. I framed the painting, with the intention of sending it to my ex-wife, but ended up taking it to Cairns in Australia where I gave it to Mr Sheep, a mate from the Animal Club Australia. He liked it and said he would hang it up on his wall at his Queenslander where the light would catch the gold leaf at the end of the day. I think 'photo-graphy' evolved out of 'photons' when Daguerrotypes first came into play. Acrylic, oil, glitter and gold leaf on canvas board, framed by the artist, 2006 Original: 420mm x 600mm Kaitiaki: Mr Sheep, Calypso Inn, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
inanga > The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany Detail from CRT monitor painted with 'The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany' detail depicted - and a little bit of magic! photography by mfnw, painting by inanga, and the rest courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 collage by inanga
inanga > The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany Acrylic, oil, glitter and gold leaf on canvas board, framed by the artist, 2007 420mm x 600mm Kaitiaki: Mr Sheep, Calypso Inn, Cairns, Queensland, Australia Mr Sheep is also Kaitiaki (Keeper) of the 'Double-sided Bird in Nature', a piece of pounamu (greenstone) that, if looked through shows a karearea (native hawk) on one side and a toucan on the other. New Zealand nephrite greenstone has a 1.618 refractive index - the same number as Phi (1.618039989). I wonder why that magic number crops up everywhere on earth, I ask rhetorically... inanga
inanga > Te Wahine Hinemoana o te Pauanui Oil and acrylic and Uffizi T-shirt on a recycled blind. 2008 540mm x 1040mm inanga
inanga > Pauanui: Moko Te Wahine Hinemoana o te Pauanui Simon the Peacemaker likes his art and one day came bearing gifts – brushes, oils, spatulas etc and a T-shirt from the Uffizi Gallery in Firenze (Florence). A series of paintings – mainly oil on recycled blinds – was in progress at the time and suddenly the T-shirt was being torn to shreds and part of it was stuck to a blind that lay on the floor. It was a reversed face from Sandro Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Thick oil was oozed into the T-shirt and became fiery red hair that cascaded over the shoulders of a buxom Venus. Simon added some brush strokes and before long the now wahine (Maori maiden) had full blue breasts. I had a great time trying to make the thighs and legs match the original texture of the blinds and getting the oil to create a giant paua (abalone) shell. The paua represents the best example of the rainbow in nature that I have encountered – apart from the rainbow Itself – and it gave an ethereal quality to the emergence of Venus. The painting hung around for a few days before the lipstick and moko (chin tattoo) was added. One could say this woman was Waitaha and a goddess, god and watercarrier. Oil and acrylic and Uffizi T-shirt on a recycled blind. 2008 Original: 520mm x 1050mm
inanga > Lip Gloss (Lippy as it is called in Aotearoa) Just listening to 'I was only 19' by an Ozzie Band Redgum and it reminded me of red lipstick. I make no excuses for such convoluted reasoning. collage courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox September 2009 inanga
The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany

Detail from CRT monitor painted with 'The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany' detail depicted - and a little bit of magic!

photography by mfnw, painting by inanga, and the rest courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

collage by inanga
> The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany Detail from CRT monitor painted with 'The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany' detail depicted - and a little bit of magic! photography by mfnw, painting by inanga, and the rest courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 collage by inanga
The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany

Detail from CRT monitor painted with 'The Last Ray of Light, Tuscany' detail depicted - and a little bit of magic!

photography by mfnw, painting by inanga, and the rest courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

collage by inanga
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