A couple of sketches done in situ with a future painting in mind. The first is in ink and watercolour and the second in gouache
The building is an old barn in the small alpine town of Antagnod, Italy. These buildings are all over the valley and many several hundreds of years old. Over time the wood warps, the walls start to lean this way and that to the point that sometimes they seem to defy gravity!
In this case I really liked how the light hit the old doorways at around 2pm so I stayed a while to see how the light and dark shapes changed as well as the textural contrast between the wood and stone elements. I'm really looking forward to scaling this scene up into a more developed work in the studio!
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