What excitement. I am about to publish my first book in a series I will call Travel Tales at the Easel. After 21 years of painting and writing about my travels to paint in Venice, IT, I am finally going to press this week. I want to stand at the end of the large press at Printing Partners in Indianapolis when the first copy rolls out and I will see my story and paintings all in vivid color and printed on a fine semi-glass paper. Then the next – and the next – all 1,000 lovely books. Most of the writing was done two years ago although I started writing about my adventures in Venice...

Rosanna's book "Poesia: Painting in Venetian Gardens with Giorgione" will be published in Summer 2017. Below is some insight into what inspired Rosanna to publish her fascinating stories. WHY I WROTE A BOOK In 2001 while studying art with the Maryland Art Institute summer program in Sorrento, Italy, my instructor Howie Weise gave me a small drawing book for sketching and keeping notes. Soon I filled the book with sketches of villas in nearby Pompeii I would like to paint. I was so captivated, I returned to the ancient ruins by local train daily to fulfill my mission to learn as much as I could...