The other side of the arched window architectural detail from the Tuscan wine room project painted back in San Diego in 2003. Everything in this shot is (in reality) painted on the same plane, on the same flat wall, making it a pleasant mix of faux painting, landscape mural painting, and architectural trompe l’oeil.
The corbels were designed from historical references and drawn on paper until perfect, then perforated and transferred cleanly and quickly to the wall in traditional spolvero style that would have made Michelangelo proud.
The Tuscan vineyard landscape was developed from client research mingled with my travel pictures, which I mostly drew and painted directly onto the wall– even if Michelangelo thought landscape painting was a soft discipline for a true artist, I love the hazy feel of the far away bits of this painting and the distance evoked “outside” the arched window.
