The Behind-the-Scenes process of releasing my memoirs
What excitement. I am about to publish my first book in a series I will call Travel Tales at the Easel. After 21 years of painting and writing about my travels to paint in Venice, IT, I am finally going to press this week. I want to stand at the end of the large press […]
Writing My Memoirs | A preview of “Poesia: Painting in Venetian Gardens with Giorgione”
Rosanna’s book “Poesia: Painting in Venetian Gardens with Giorgione” will be published in Summer 2017. Below is some insight into what inspired Rosanna to publish her fascinating stories. WHY I WROTE A BOOK In 2001 while studying art with the Maryland Art Institute summer program in Sorrento, Italy, my instructor Howie Weise gave me a […]
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Marae Arahurahu once was a Polynesian site for religious ceremonies to celebrate their dead ancestors. Now two huge Tahitian god figures stand silently. They seem to hold court in their natural palace grounds. I am alone as I honor them with paintings. I have to paint them. One thought I have is that 116 years […]
On Returning To Italy
I feel I am returning home again – maybe I should say, I am returning to my three Italian hometowns of Rome, Venice, and Florence. Every street corner, every canal, every cobbled street is familiar territory. This is my soul state of being alive, away from this world of commercialism, politics, war, and bad art. […]
Roam through Italian Garden Paintings
Italian gardens call me back this fall. Already I am packing my watercolors, brushes, paper, and easel for the return pilgrimage to my favorite gardens in Rome and Venice. In “Travel Tales from the Easel,” my memoir, I reflect on the adventure of painting in Italy. In Venice, I recall, after loading up with my […]
Painting in Mughal Gardens of India
Even when I don’t complete a painting to my satisfaction, I feel I have owned the garden for my own earthly delights. The garden and I become one entity. I am happy. I experience such joy in Gardens of Paradise. A glimpse into Gardens of Paradise – where I feel so at peace – is […]