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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 10/05/2025

Madrid 10 May 2025 ❤️🖤💚

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 01/05/2025

Primo maggio! Su coraggio! Io ti AMOOO! Happy Labour Day, everyone. We shall overcome

2 huge terracotta platters, the one in the bottom containing grilled ribs and sausages, the top one containing raw vegetables: artichokes, carrots, fennels, endives. Typical post-pasta spread in Tuscany, Italy.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 10/04/2025

Spring has sprung on a mossy old wall, in all shades of green and some orange explosion, shuttered by red. Watercolour painting on handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi, roughly 31x42 cm. #watercolor #ArtYear #art #BskyArt #AbstractPainting #red

Watercolour painting on heavily textured paper: at the bottom, mossy green stripes with brownish undertones, followed by thinner strips of much darker, ominous green, above which a narrow strip of bright orange explored. Colder shades of emerald green above, with more orange still. 2/3 of the way up, two vertical rectangles in cadmium red in the middle, are encased by a deep scarlet frame.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 09/04/2025

Redder than ever today, with sepia, mauve and violet undertones, liberated by the fluo Opera rose at the top. Watercolour painting on handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi, roughly 31x42 cm #watercolor #ArtYear #art #BskyArt #AbstractPainting #red

Watercolour painting: stripes of deep red up to more than half way, followed by maude and violet, then dirty red again, and fluo pink at the top, with a wide but thin opaque deep red "window" on top of the intersection beteen violet and dirty red. Heavily textured and also a bit splattered, with splotches of colours interactiing on each stripe, and lagoons of paler colour in places. Like the phases of an old building, painted over many times. On handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 08/04/2025

Deeper and darker and with a lot of mauve, but still, very red. Strata and strata. With dirt and grit. Watercolour painting on handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi, roughly 31x42 cm #watercolor #ArtYear #art #BskyArt #AbstractPainting

Watercolour painting: stripes of deep red at the bottom, then almost half the way p mauve and sepia come in, bringing darkness, alternating until the top, with occasional splotches of red sneaking in. Heavily textured and also a bit splattered, with colours interaction. Like the phases of an old building, painted over many times. A red opaque square painted in acrylic sits on top of the stripes, towards the top, with a dark pink thin wide frame running around it. On handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 07/04/2025

My red phase. (I may stray out of it occasionally, or even for long stretches, but I will always get back to red.) Watercolour painting on handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi, roughly 31x42 cm #watercolour #ArtYear #art #BskyArt

Watercolour painting: alternating stripes of deep red, mauve, sepia, a thin strip of bright fluo pink, and more red, heavily textured and also a bit splattered, with colours interaction. Like the phases of an old building, painted over many times. A red opaque square painted in acrylic sits in the middle, on top of the stripes. On handmade cotton rag paper by Khadi.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 29/01/2025

I have to write a sales page for my workshop and I hate that so much it makes me come out in hives, so here’s a bright pink and green and yellow happy watercolour painting celebrating spring, to take my mind off it instead. #watercolor #art #DailyArt #painting

Watercolour painting on a rough pinewood table, with painting paraphernalia around it: a palette, a brush, some half godets. Stripes of blended pink and green with hints of yellow and brown are intersected by short sharp small rectangles and lines in bright pink, dark magenta, green, yellow.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 28/01/2025

My abstract, colour-based take on the city of Venice, Italy. Watercolour painting commissioned by a beloved friend just before she left us. In loving memory of Sharon 💙 #DailyArt #Watercolor

Watercolour painting representing my abstract, colour-based take on Venice: horizontal stripes in shades of indigo, grey and turquoise for the sea, and dark brown, yellow, pink with a trim of gold for the buildings and the glorious art.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 27/01/2025

What I did on the weekend: my take on wild cyclamens in the deep of the forest in winter. Watercolour on textured paper, roughly 28x19 cm. #watercolour #DailyArt #art

Watercolour painting on heavily textured handmade paper. Horizontal and vertical rectangles in sepia, brown, mauve, violet, bright pink and shades of green intersecting and overlapping, with transparency effects.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 20/01/2025

#OnlyBeautifulThings Ciro’s sister suddenly left us on 19 Dec, and 2 days later he nearly went, too - but the vets and I managed to persuade him to stay a while longer. Here he was this morning, in all his orange magnificence

Ciro, a 16-year-old ginger cat, lying on the bed in a semicircle, with his front paws slightly raised ready to make biscuits in the air, looking at the camera sideways.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 14/01/2025

My sister's bedroom walls are purple, so I gave her this painting for Christmas, thinking it would look perfect on her walls. Colours suggested by the natural display I had on my terrace at the time of painting.

A watercolour painting sitting on a rustic pinewood table, seen from above. Thick horizontal and vertical stripes in a deep green with bright pink, purple and ochre stains, punctuated by much shorter and thinner rectangles and lines in all those colours. A jar with purple-ish water sits on the top left, above the painting, with a brush and watercolour half-pans to the right. The colours were inspired by the plants that were thriving on my terrace at the time I painted this.

Purple chives flowers in focus against the green blurred background of the rest of the plant.

A succulent plant looking a bit like a rose (a type of Echeveria), with green leaves with a purple edge and drops of dew.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 09/01/2025

And when @amberhinds.bsky.social pointed out on Twitter that that "weirdness" presents accessibility issues, WordPress' not-so-Benevolent Dictator For Life, Matt Mullenweg, accused her of providing a net negative contribution, adding the frankly silly Rothko comparison later. x.com/photomatt/st...

Tweet by Matt Mullenweg on Jan 3 2025, saying:
"You’re tipping into net negative contribution territory."

Tweet by Matt Mullenweg on Jan 3 2025, saying:
"Like at what point do you say a Rothko painting isn't high contrast enough?"

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 29/12/2024

The therapeutic side effects on heart, body and soul of a glass of Franciacorta in the winter sun, sipped in the company of loved ones, in the Piazza to end all piazzas. Happy holidays from Siena, everyone 🥂

A glass of Franciacorta, an Italian sparkling wine, on an table outdoors in piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy. A festive red flower decoration is sitting to the right of the glass, while the midday winter sun is gleaming above it. The medieval Torre del Mangia and Palazzo Pubblico are in the background.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 19/12/2024

Take lots of photos and videos of your pets. When they suddenly leave you, you will think you didn’t take enough. RIP Fiora 💙 You had the best resting bitch face You were the sweetest cat I love you Thank you for all the love you gave me. 22 June 2009 - 19 December 2024

Fiora, a tortie cat, is lying sideways in a coy posture with a paw hiding half her face, one green eye gazing lovingly at the camera. She’s about to roll over demanding belly rubs 💙

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 18/12/2024

Here is a close up on an abstract tree in silver and blue and green on indigo paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

The branches of a silver tree describe wide curves on deep indigo blue paper, with swirls of metallic blue and electric blue in the background.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 17/12/2024

Morning sky blue on night sky blue. Plus, a ginger cat on his favourite seat. #ArtAdventCalendar

Drawing in pale blue acrylic marker on a deep indigo blue sketchbook. Wavey lines cross the spread vertically from the top and diagonally, creating spaces between them that are joined by patterns of curvy horizontal lines, also filled by rows of shorter lines. Sometimes the patterns look like waves, sometimes rolling hills, some other times they look like leaves with veins.

Detail of the previous drawing, showing patterns of rolling hills and waves drawn in pale blue acrylic ink on an indigo sketchbook

The ginger cat called Ciro sitting neatly on top of the indigo sketchbook, opened at the spread with the pale blue drawing, and placed on a rustic pinewood table. Ciro is seen from above, his head slightly turned to the left, you can see the tip of his nose and his whiskers sticking out proudly.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 16/12/2024

Pink pink pink pink pink pink pink… pink moon Gnarly trees under a pink moon light (drawn while listening to Nick Drake 🩷) #ArtAdventCalendar

Drawing in acrylic markers on an A5 sheet of red paper: a pink tree on the left, described by curved lines creating smaller spaces filled by shorter lines, in a flowing pattern resembling the bark of a tree. A gnarled silver branch juts in diagonally from the bottom right intersecting with the branches of the pink tree at the top. A third gnarled tree in pale violet is at the bottom, branching out to the left and right.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 16/12/2024

Locked out of WordPress dot org aka Matt's personal website once again

The login page for WordPress.org on mobile, https://login.wordpress.org/: Log in to your WordPress.org account to contribute to WordPress, get help in the support forum, or rate and review themes and plugins.
Below the Password field there are two checkboxes. The second one is "Remember me" and it's not required, you can bypass it. The first one says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza." a crime against Italian culinary heritage. It is also required, i.e. you can't log in unless you tick it. Which I will never do.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 15/12/2024

Hey Blue And there is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in #ArtAdventCalendar

Intricate line drawing in electric blue acrylic marker, on indigo blue, heavily textured handmade paper. Curvy lines cross the paper vertically and diagonally, intersecting and creating smaller spaces, which are filled up by shorter lines that describe semi regular patterns similar to leaves with veins. There is no space left on the A5 sheet, it is completely filled by this abstract plant landscape.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 11/12/2024

Mountain ridges with lakes and ponds, although I forgot the goats. Spread from indigo blue sketchbook. #ArtAdventCalendar

Indigo blue sketchbook open on a rustic pinewood table, with markers scattered around. The drawing occupying the spread is an abstract alpine landscape. Mountain ridges in silver marker jut out from the bottom, with peaks and troughs occupying about half the page. Upside down ridges are drawn from the top, one quarter of the way down. The technique uses series of parallel lines to create the shapes. The mountains are punctuated by occasional small lakes and pools of colour: pink, green, bronze, blue.

Close up detail of the mountain ridges in silver acrylic marker made of shapes filled by parallel lines, with occasional pools of colour brightening up the landscape.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 10/12/2024

Kelp #2 Underwater kelp forest waving wildly in the currents, in the midday sun. Watercolour on thick handmade indigo paper. 36x24 cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/kel...

Two clusters of thick silver, gold, and green wavy lines in metallic watercolour paint start from top left and right respectively, describing ample curves and meeting in the middle at the bottom. They’re interspersed with thinner ribbons of orange, brown, red, and light green lines providing a vibrant contrast. On thick, heavily textured indigo blue handmade paper.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 09/12/2024

Túria #3 Gnarly tree trunks and branches in the Turia park in Valencia, Spain. Silver and gold acrylic markers on heavily textured indigo blue handmade paper. 38x26 cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar

Silver and gold tree trunks intertwine, with branches shooting out. They’re drawn with acrylic markers.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 08/12/2024

Parterre #2 Inspired by the majestic giant ficus trees in the Parterre in Valencia. Metallic watercolour on handmade indigo blue paper. 36x24 cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/par...

An abstraction of a tree in copper on the left, with a sinuous thick trunk, chunky aerial roots and heavy branches jutting out in wide curves towards the top and extending to the right. Lianes of varying thickness in gold, pale blue and pale green float around the tree, in a playful dance.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 07/12/2024

Posidonia Oceanica #3 More Posidonia Oceanica with the colours of the Mediterranean sea glowing in the pale light of dawn. Watercolours on handmade indigo blue paper. 38x26 cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/pos...

Two clusters of thick ribbons of silver, turquoise, pale green, and pale blue metallic watercolour cross the painting diagonally, one from the top right and one from the top left. The ribbons hug one another, in sinuous curves, and meet in the middle at the bottom. Thinner lines of copper paint bring a bright accent. The background is a dark, indigo blue, heavily textured handmade paper.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 06/12/2024

Turia #1 Gnarly tree trunks and branches in the Turia park in Valencia, Spain. Fine acrylic markers on heavily textured grey handmade paper. 56x38 roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/turia

Intricate line drawing in pale grey on dark grey, heavily textured paper, creating abstract tree trunks and branches, intersecting across the sheet. Occasionally, a small splodge of copper or silver fills in a space between the lines, giving a shimmer of light.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 05/12/2024

Posidonia Oceanica #2 Prairies of Posidonia Oceanica in the sea at night, shimmering in the moonlight. Watercolour on thick handmade indigo paper. 56x38cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/pos...

Thick lines of electric blue metallic colour enter the painting from the top left and top right, sinuously finding their way to the bottom. Thinner lines of paler blue, silver and copper hug the chunky electric blue lines, then abandon them, then hug them again, undulating in the currents. The background is a deep indigo blue, heavily textured, handmade paper. This is the shallow bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, close to the shore, covered in prairies of the seaweed Posidonia Oceanica glowing in the moonlight.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 04/12/2024

Posidonia Oceanica #1 Prairies of Posidonia Oceanica with the colours of the Mediterranean sea glowing in the pale light of dawn. Watercolour on thick handmade indigo paper. 56x38cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/pos...

Ribbons of thick, curved lines in silver paint on thick, heavily textured indigo blue paper, the colour of the deep blue sea. More wavy lines in pale blue and green, of varying thickness, intersect and intertwine with the chunkier silver shapes. Like an underwater garden of Posidonia Oceanica glowing in the pale morning sun. The Posidonia is a seaweed that’s typical of the Mediterranean Sea and a crucial habitat for its marine life.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 03/12/2024

Parterre #1 Inspired by the ginormous ficus trees in the Parterre, Valencia. Metallic watercolour on thick, handmade, heavily textured indigo paper. The colours look different, depending on the light. 56x38cm roughly #ArtAdventCalendar

An abstraction of a giant ficus tree, painted with bright copper pigment in the middle of a sheet of handmade, coarse, heavily textured indigo paper. The trunk has thick branches shooting out to the right and left, in wide curves and bends. Ribbons of pale green, pale gold, and pale blue wavy lines flow across the surface, intertwined with the branches, like lianes in a tropical forest.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 02/12/2024

Kelp #1. Underwater kelp forest waving wildly in the currents. Iridescent watercolours on thick handmade indigo paper. The colours always look different, depending on the light. 56x38cm roughly. #ArtAdventCalendar art.piccianeri.com/products/kel...

Two clusters of thick yellow, green and gold wavy lines in iridescent watercolour paint start from top left and right respectively, describing ample curves and meeting in the middle at the bottom. They’re interspersed with thinner ribbons of orange and light green lines providing a vibrant contrast. On thick, heavily textured indigo blue handmade paper.

Detail of the centre of the painting, highlighting the indigo paper texture and the jungle of lines of varying thickness and shades of green, gold, silver and orange.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 25/11/2024

About 10% of the population has a form of colour blindness. That vibrant red and blue colour combo you're so proud of? It might well look like mud brown and desaturated green to more people than you think. Plus, a stark contrast based on hue can look totally the same in grayscale. 2/5

The same 3 small wooden bowls image, in grayscale. Now there is virtually no difference between the bowl on the top (red) and the bowl on the bottom right (electric blue), because the amount of brightness is very similar. On the other hand, the yellow bowl packs a punchy contrast even in grayscale, because it's so much brighter than the other two.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 25/11/2024

Here's a design mistake most websites make (so you can avoid doing the same). Basing your brand palettes on hue contrast, rather than value. Hue contrast is great when you can see it, but pointless when you can't. 1/5 #accessibility #a11y #DontBeADick

3 small wooden bowls on a rustic wooden background. The bowl on top contains a bright red pigment; below, bright yellow pigment in the bowl on the left, and electric blue pigment in the bowl on the right. The hue contrast between all colours is very strong.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 25/11/2024

20 Books Challenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 2/20 Bibi (Una bimba del Nord) (Bibi (A little girl from the North) by Karin Michaëlis

Cover of the book Bibi (Una bimba del Nord) (English: Bibi (A little girl from the North)) by Karin Michaëlis. Orange canvas cover from the 1930s.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 24/11/2024

Cover of the book Stone Junction by Jim Dodge. On the bottom, a quote by Time Out reads: “An irresistible kaleidoscope of manic, tragic and exquisitely funny Americana”.

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Piccia Neri @piccianeri.com · 18/11/2024

in the meantime, here are my cats as despondent teenagers, a decade and a half ago

In the top of the image, a young and eager orange cat's face looking expectantly up to the right, his green eyes brimming with hope. Right below him, his tortie sister is sporting her finest resting bitch face. Both are, in fact, total love bugs.

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