Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: Italia

  • Thirty day challenge – collage

    What a month! I made a collage of all the work I did. I sold ten paintings out of thirty, and made almost 400 dollars for endangered species conservation! There are several more of these paintings for sale. If you travel backwards on this blog, you can see which are available and which are not.…

  • Day 15 – Il Fioraio – The Flower vendor

    In 2006 Donald and I made two friends in Naples; Lucia and Alfonso. They are the parents of a good friend of ours, and they were conveniently just our age. When we needed a place to stay in Naples, they found a friend who rents an apartment. When our bags came up missing from the…

  • Day 14 – Stazione Centrale – Napoli

    Italy is known for its beautiful women. Naples is no exception. My husband took lots of pictures of pretty girls, here are a couple that were waiting along with us for a bus. I will never forget that day; we planned to spend a weekend in Puglia with some friends. There was a bus that…

  • Day 13 – break time – Naples Series

    Even in Naples you can get a fancy horse and carriage ride! We found this driver taking a break, apparently getting an earful from someone, his mother? his wife? One wonders. This is another small painting, it measures only 5″ x 7″ I am asking $65 for it. All of the proceeds goes to a…

  • Day 12 – A street in Naples

    I was captivated by this scene. A young couple is walking down one of the ancient, narrow, crowded streets of Naples. The young woman pushes a baby in a buggy and is carrying two big bags of groceries. The young man? He’s playing his accordion. For those of you that do not know, the accordion…