Vince Livecchi

Another doggo done! Honey was so much fun to paint. I really enjoy trying to capture her personality in a painting.

I finished these little pups a bit ago but finally got to posting them. They were three custom pet portraits I did for a friend. If you or someone you know wants portraits of your pets painted I would be more than happy to do them for you. Dm me if interested.
God bless

I have just completed my larger watercolor painting that I have ever done. It was a bit different than what I have been used to. I really enjoyed the ability to add much more detail to this large painting, I think that is what made this painting so enjoyable to make. I am very happy with how it turned out. I hope you'll like it.

These last couple of weeks has been amazing! I have been blessed to find over 120 different species of birds, including three rare and one endangered species. I saw for the first time a Prairie and a Worm-eating Warbler along with a Piping Plover. I was also able to see foxes and their cubs playing and hunting among some rocks at Magee Marsh. It truly has been an awesome time.

I am extremely pleased with how my latest watercolor painting. This was my first time painting a person with watercolors, it was an adventure and totally something new for me, but worth it. I hope you you enjoy it.

This semester I had the opportunity to have one of my pieces be displayed in a birdhouse exhibit. Bust sadly due to, you've guessed it, Covid the University of Toledo had to cancel the open house for the student exhibits, including the birdhouse exhibit. Since the exhibition was not open to the public I thought I would share with you some photos of it. It was a bummer that people were not able to see my artwork along with the artwork of several awesome fellow students, but was an extraordinary experience and am very thankful to everyone at UT that made it happen

Spring is an awesome season. Not only is life and color coming back the scenery, but the warblers are migrating through. Spring migration is my favorite time of the year, I love the colors, the sounds, and the energy that it brings. There is so much beauty everywhere. Here are a few photos of some of the magnificent birds that year after year ceases to amaze and enthralled me.

The end of the semester is here. It has been a bit crazy and tiring, but it has been a blessing. I have learned so much, have had experiences that I didn't think that I would have ever had. I was able to create some exciting pieces, which I am pleased with. I want to thank all of the faculty at The University of Toledo's College of Arts and Letters for such a great semester.

As I approach the end of the school year and wrap up all of my final projects. One that I am extremely pleased with is from my 2D design class. We had to make an artwork incorporating the local flora and fauna from northwest Ohio. I chose to do a “taxidermy” like painting, having the local species displayed in frames on a wall. I am exceedingly happy with how it turned out. Hope you all will enjoy it. God bless

For school, I had to make an artwork that represented and measured time. I chose to show time in the lifecycle of a dandelion. I initially was just going to paint a “scientifical cart” of how the flower grew. This turned out to be quite boring and bland to look at, having no movement and a lot of negative space. I decided, after much thought, to spice it up by making the “chart” part of a new composition. I thought that it would be exciting to view the flower chart from an overhead view with other knickknacks that would cast shadows and appear to be three-dimensional. I added a pocket watch to expand on the topic of time measuring. This is my first time trying an illusion in my art and am pleased with how it turned out. I hope you all enjoy it
God bless.

Today in class I finished a series of projects that I have been working on for about ten weeks now. It is a project that investigated the different sculptural mediums and how they change the end product of a piece. Through the ten weeks, I have explored the medium of wire, oil clay, plaster, and aluminum. It has been a great experience to learn the skills and techniques of sculpture.

Man! It's been a while since I have been able to do my own art rather than artwork from school. I have been so busy lately that I have not been able to sit down and just make the art that I want to. Don't get me wrong. I love my schoolwork and I do learn a lot from the assignments, but they aren't anything like making my own.
I chose to do an icon for a couple of different reasons. First I chose it because I enjoyed my first one so much I have been hankering to do another one ever since. Second I chose to do it because I thought that it would take less time than other artworks, so I could squeeze it into my schedule. Lastly, I chose it because I really like icons and what they symbolize, that are windows into another world, so that I am not held down to a set of rules, I can make it stylized. I can portray or tell a story more effectively than other types of art.
So here it is. My icon of the Virgin and Child. I came up with this composition by combining two different icons of Mary that I loved. I hope that you all will enjoy it as much as I have.
God bless.

Gosh, this semester has been crazy. It has been four weeks of classes now and we are a quarter of they way through it. But it still seems like it started yesterday, yet when I think of all that I have done it feels like eternity.
I thought that I should share some of the artwork that I have made so far, because, amid all the crazy, I have really enjoyed the classes that I have had. I feel like I have learned a lot in these few weeks. It has been a ride so far, but I am looking forward to the rest of the semester.

Winter can be a time of frost and chill, it can be a time where it is too bloody cold that we are not willing to venture out into the frozen land. But winter can also be a season of great beauty, a time where our breath is taken away from ourselves (either from the immense beauty or from the nasty cold), a time where you can feel the liveliness of true beauty at work behind the fridged land. Beauty is out there, waiting for us to find it, for us to appreciate it, waiting for us to long for it. Beauty is ever ancient and ever new.

School starts soon, so I decided to sneak in one more project before it began. I thought that I would try something that I have wanted to for a while.
I carved a statue of the Sacred Heart a couple of years ago and I was never satisfied with how it looked, it has been on my mind to redo it for several months now. So I decided to give it the old college try.
With the project finished, I am pleased with how it turned out. There are some little things that I do not like, things that could not have been fixed because they were “mistakes” that I made during the first carving, things that I have learned to make better. But overall I am happy with the redo, I think that it is a bit more natural and realistic.
Re-carving this statute has been interesting because I have been able to see how my skill has grown and developed and how my style has changed just a bit over time. It was neat.

Below are before and after photos of the statue (before is on the right, after on the left).

I am honor and happy to announce that my artwork has been chosen to be exhibited on Billboard throughout Toledo! My work along with the works 7 other UT art student will be shown on 18 different billboard locations. I have included the lists of where they all will be so if would like to check them out you can. Along with that I have also added the two images of mine that were chosen.
Please check them out, it was cool to see them all at that size.

Though the world right now can almost feel lifeless, dull, and unsure, almost like there is nothing we can find truth, beauty, and goodness in. But, if we truly look and strive to find the beauty of the world, we will find it. We will find that there is still hope, there is still the truth, there is still goodness. And by finding these qualities we will start to see that the darkness that we can feel in these times will be overpowered and the light of all that is good. If we can find the good and beauty, even in the small things, and show them to the world, that is so starving for the truth, the beautiful, and the good, we can to dispel the fear that the darkness brings.
Spread the message of truth, beauty, and goodness.

God bless.

Well, folks, here is the finished product. I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and think that it is the best chalk pastel artwork that I have ever done. It has been a journey though, I thought that I was done with this picture about five times haha. But now looking back I am very happy that I didn't stop, I am glad that I kept going and adding more finishing touches. (thank you mom for your help and artistic critiques, they helped a bunch).
I hope that you all will enjoy this piece as much as I have, please let me know what you think. And as always God bless.

Have you ever felt so inspired that you couldn't help but do that which you need to? That is how I felt about this project. This idea just popped into my head and I needed to draw it, I needed to create it.
I am only about two-thirds done with it, but I am liking it so far. Right now I am struggling with getting the death of his face. It's all looking a bit flat. I also need to really pull the shadows up everywhere. But I think that when that is done it will look promising. 

12x18 in. Watercolor least sandpiper.

12x16 in. Chalk pastel

9x12 in. Watercolor Saint Joseph icon

I sculpted this statue early last year but never got around to completing it. It has been just sitting on a shelf starting to collect dust. So I decided to finally paint and finish it. I am pleased to present to you all my completed product.

Hello, my name is Vince Livecchi. I am an artist and photographer in the Toledo, Ohio area. I do custom pet portraits and other custom or original pieces of artwork.
There is not much here yet, but there will be. I will post on here my artist endeavors, finished artworks, photos that I have taken, and pieces of artwork for sale.