loving hearing Italian spoken in the house again

We have two Italian students with us for a week. They’re two gorgeous Italian boys from the north near Milan (completley biased here as we love Italians) and it really is lovely to hear the language in the house again. We’ve had two Italian aupairs over the years who became very dear to us and we’ve been to Itally many times.  And… they brought really good Italian parmesan and biscuits with them. Mmmmm

If (I mean when – see, thinking positively like Oprah says) When I win the lotto I will buy a little house in Alassio in Liguria and paint outside on the terrace over looking the rocks and the sea.

Meanwhile….

Slinky Malini

The first painting of the new arrival. Not the first he has been in unfortunately but the first he has been the subject of. He was swatting something, actually I think he was just attacking the air for no aparent reason – kittens eh?

slinky malini 7×7 inch oil on gesso bord