The Berkeland Studio

Santorini

I'm slowly chipping away at some ideas for how to paint urban scenes. Here's my latest crack at painting a glimpse of the town of Oia on the island of Santorini in Greece. Measures 43"x43". It's a follow up to an approach I took on a painting glimpses of San Francisco and that I hope to apply to more interesting snippets of urbanity in the future. Here are the SF paintings:

Summer in Naxos

This painting might look familiar.  I sketched it out a few years ago when I spent the spring and summer on the Greek island of Naxos. 

Here's the original sketch (Hi Diane) :

The island of Naxos

A sailboat passing in front of Chora on the island of Naxos. 

End of the day on Naxos

Here is another painting from the island of Naxos in Greece where I spent a few months last summer.  The views from this part of the island, looking west over the Aegean Sea, are some of the most inspiring views I've found.  I intend to paint many more paintings of this area.

This painting, End of the day in Naxos, is available now by clicking here.  Large canvas prints are available here.

Sheep in A Naxos field

A view from the Greek island of Naxos of some sheep in a field with the sun setting over the island of Paros.  This painting measures 16" x 20" and is painted in oil onto gesso board.

Sailboat in Naxos

This is an 8"x10" oil on gessoed board of George's sailboat in front of Chora (or Naxos town) on the island of Naxos in Greece.

Naxos Chapel

Finished today!  That little chapel up on the hill in Naxos.  It's in my eBay store now.  I'll use a lot of these color ideas in future Greek paintings.

SOLD - Naxos Fields in the Sunset

Gone to an eBayer from Mount Vernon, NY.  Check out my current auctions HERE.

Greek Chapel on Naxos

The island of Naxos is full of these little white chapels.  I passed this one on my scooter over and over in the time that I was on the island and stopped regularly at different times of day to take pictures, do some sketching, or just stare across the water over to Paros.  This little painting has been working on me for a while now but I think it is close.  Not done yet, though!