Assisi, Italy

Trying this techinque of making a childrens book and then colouring in then then refining the painting with extra ink and shades works fine when I have little time for observation. It gives me the opportunity to work with limited observational powers, first looking at form, then at colour then correct whatever I missed in the clair obscure.

This slanting road upward in the heat of an Assisi afternoon gave ample fun and leisure to catch some of the sizzling dry heat and the beauty of the plants and houses.

La Civita, Italy

Magical Creature from Urbino

It is good to copy and learn from the artist. This small dragon, as I called it is a little beast out of an old Italian book on magical creatures that inhabited the capital first letters of old Bible texts and other important books. I did learn a lot and the creature has its likeness to the original.

Mostly I loved mixing exactly the right colours of the blues, blue greens and greens. Would love to design one myself. Will do good time and many a copying, I suppose.