2025 in Pisticci….market day….

It was Scanzano market today.

While I was waiting for a lift I took these photos.

View towards town from Piazza Lombardy
Typical  building with cool shadows.
I came down these steps on my way to the piazza.
There are roughly 3 streets full of stalls selling all sorts of things .

The second  hand stall is now twice as big. However they only had woolly scarves and I was looking for something different …..even if I didn’t know quite what that would be.

I’d decided that if I was going to be authentic when painting my scarves with flowers, then they would need to be something I wanted to wear.

The first scarf I found was very colourful and I nearly didn’t buy it when the price went from 5 euros to 12. ( strange! ) (I don’t haggle so if I don’t like the price I just say, thanks, and leave.) It wasn’t worth 12 euros to me.

However I was further down the street when the stallholder rushed up and said ,” You forgot this.” Surprised, I said that I would only pay 5euros so he gave me the scarf and I went back and paid him.  That’s never happened before.

First scarf set up with flowers. There is much more contrast in real life. I bought the flowers at the market too.

The next scarf I bought was about three times as big, better quality than the first one and was 10 euros.

I’ll  definitely wear this . It’s got some really interesting flowers on it and feels lovely. ( and it looks better in real life)

So this afternoon  I painted another canvas black and sketched my next scarf and flowers painting.

I think it might work. I’m enjoying the challenge to make the real flowers stand out.

Tomorrow I should have time to work on this. ( I ordered another 10 60x80cm  canvases today. ) Theoretically I only need to sell one to cover the price of them all.

Now it’s wine time. The wind has finally gone so it’s not nearly so cold.

Cheers🍷🍷

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