If you’ve ever been to an Italian town, you’ll often come across its main church, or Duomo, in the town’s biggest square or piazza. In the town of Amalfi, the […]
I have a tremendous fear of heights. Over the years, I’ve followed the advice to face that fear, and I’ve forced myself to go up to high places. Each time […]
Fifteen years ago, I got kissed on this spot in Pienza, Italy. I was lost in the vista from this winding promenade high above a wall. The sunny Tuscan valley […]
A few years ago, I painted my first miniature featuring Love Locks – the padlocks with lovers’ initials attached to bridges and other structures. Being the romantic that I am, […]
In 2011, almost a decade ago now, I visited the Italian city of Matera in the Basilicata region. A friend of mine had been born there and spoke of it […]
Hot off the virtual presses: The AWW Holiday Gift Guide! AWW stands for Art We Wonderful, don’t you know! And this is the one blog post each year I […]
As a teenager and an aspiring actor, I often daydreamed about living in New York City and pursuing a creative career. Part of that daydream was living in an apartment […]
About 100 years ago, one of the best ways to promote your business was to have a sign painted onto the side of a building. In big bright letters, the […]
Last year, I undertook an exercise of identifying the themes in my art – what each piece meant to me, what I was attempting to capture or what I had […]
After painting more than 30 miniature doors, I thought I had this whole “door thing” down – wrong! My latest series of doors have knocked me around quite a bit. […]
Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I love this quote! I guess as an artist, I may laugh in flowers, too, because 3 of my recent miniature paintings […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan