Sometimes it is not the grand landscapes that strike me, but the moments that seem to pass unnoticed.
A little girl, her small dog, the sea before them. No running, no noise. Just time suspended in a simple moment.
I did not take that photograph with the intention of painting it. It was the image itself that came back to me days later, asking to be transformed into colour.
On this small 20 × 20 cm canvas, I tried to convey not only a scene, but also a feeling: the freedom that belongs to childhood, when the sea seems endless and a dog on a leash is the perfect companion with whom to explore the world.
TITLE: July, an Almost Deserted Beach
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
20 x 20 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
July 2026
SERIAL N.:
20260701
NOTES:
The subject was painted entirely with a palette knife.
I observed the scene while walking along the beach at Marina di Massa. The following day, I described it to an AI in order to obtain a preliminary study image, while the final work was created entirely by hand.
AI does not make the decisions: it accelerates the study phase. The ethical principle lies in two things: not copying other people’s material in a non-transparent way, and openly stating that AI was used as a design aid, while the final artwork—and all the artistic choices—remain my own.
