Ivan Berardi
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Ivan Berardi
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Hi, I am an Italian artist (strong word) based in the Vosges (a small mountain chain in France). I mostly paint and draw the landscape that's around me. Liberal, progressive, vegan 🏳️‍🌈
So…this is supposed to be my nephew. Well not quite, but I guess he looks human.😅
#sketch #drawing
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
On Friday I had to travel all day for an unplanned trip back home. Nothing too exciting just trains and buses…all went smoothly until I got to Italy and found there were no trains due to a national strike. Nephew to the rescue!
#sketch #travel
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Once again the first layer is done. Pretty much a mess at this stage, but I'm hopeful….
#landscape #acrylics #vosges
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And it's done! Le sentier des Roches. #Vosges. Acrylics on board
#landscape #mountains #art #gerardmer
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Little sketch: Gérardmer under a gloomy bank of clouds
#sketch #landscape
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Once again, the first layer of paint for my next baby. This is the Sentier des Roches, arguably the most beautiful, albeit vertiginous, path in the #
#Vosges
#landscape #acrylics
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
And here’s Le Valtin finished ( I think…I might still play with the clouds). Acrylics on board
#landscape #art #nonai #vosges #acrylics
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So, this is an ancient tradition (2007). I took this photo of my mum—don't worry, she's still alive— under the hairdryer, serving up the best Italian fashion has to offer. This has been my December profile pic on my Meta accounts. Since I'm no longer on Meta, here it is, just for you!
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This is Youkie a friend’s dog. We've been looking after her for the last few days. I drew this sketch a few years back. Let's just say that she's fond of food. She's also one in a million…not necessarily in a good way 😉, but you got to love her.
#sketch #dog #illustration
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Very quick sketch: khakis and kiwi fruit. Well done you if you guessed that was a kiwi! Oil pastels and watercolours
#sketch #stilllife #art
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is the town's underground water reservoir, right in the middle of the forest behind our house. On the L last week after the first snowfall. I liked how the grass was still peaking out. In the middle is my attempt to sketch it, on the R as it was yesterday during a heavier fall
#snow #sketch
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
We have three vases full of white hydrangea cuttings. In theory they should root and be ready for planting next spring. The flowers are drying out and turning reddish and pinkish colored. We'll see.
#flowers #sketch #art
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is the first layer of paint for the new landscape I'm working on. It's a summer view of the Valtin valley just a few Ks from where I live. Let's wait for it to dry…
#art #landscape #vosges
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today's offering is a bowl of fruit. I love this bowl that was left here, like everything else, from the previous owners. A masterpiece it ain't, but here it is anyway #fruit #sketch #watercolour
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Another little sketch made with leftover paint from the Beech trees painting #illustration #sketch #flowers
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
In the end I decided to add branches and leaves to the foreground. Not sure if it was the right decision…too late now! Also not oak trees but beech. My fault. #acrylics #art #landscape
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is the result of two separate events: a forest of high altitude oak trees, we came across last week during a long walk. And the sky that, two days ago, turned yellowish pink. I'm not sure it's finished: I think I need something in the foreground. But here it is anyway
#landscape #art #forest
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
On this day, 7 years ago we visited Neist Point on Skye ( Scotland). It was just amazing. This sketch that I have just done doesn't do it any justice. But here it is anyway.
#skye #watercolour #landscape #sketch
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I rarely sketch buildings because I'm pretty s#it at it 😀 but voilà a quick one. Gérardmer town hall.
#sketch #france #gerardmer
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I want to get into the habit of drawing/ sketching more regularly. And since I have hundreds of pictures of Nitro ( usually sleeping) I thought it would make the perfect subject. It's far from perfect, but an enjoyable exercise anyway.
#dog #watercolour #illustration #sketch
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm really loving working with the palette knife at the moment. This is one of my favorite local lakes: Le lac des truites
#acrylics #illustration #art #vosges #landscape
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nitro sleeping by the window on a rainy day. Fine liners
#dog #illustration #fineliner
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Hohneck in blue.
#art #landscape #vosges #acrylics #alsace
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
First page of my new sketchbook. We used to call this place Dark Wood because the trees had been planted in rows so close that virtually no light reached the ground apart from where a path used to run through it. Most of the trees have been cut down now, but that's Ok. Felt pens
#drawing #art
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This is a collaboration between a friend and myself. I actually didn't do much so its mainly her baby. #abstract #art
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM