Sunday, December 1, 2019

An Oddball in Nice


A view down the short Rue Sainte-Claire in Nice old town.   The paintings on my easel are changing fast.  This studio painting depicts a view I painted a couple times on site last March.  There was a torn and indecipherable banner hanging high across the narrow street.  At this corner I encountered a man who would stop every few feet, cross himself and pray.  Everybody ignored him.  I saw him again later acting normally, and he nodded to me in recognition.  I may have seemed like the oddball to him with my easel, painting in a corner against the convent wall.  12x16 oil on panel.

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