Medieval Towns - cont.

Gordes' sunset
Patel on Pastelmat - 47 x 31 cm

Italian Town

This is my first "big" painting, the largest I have worked on so far.

I have a fondness for medieval towns, they feel so "organic" to me. Spontaneous and unplanned, they grow out of the hillsides at a very human scale, that excludes cars and other modern contraptions. The narrow winding roads, made for people, carts, horses (and the occasional herd of sheep), and the houses that give them shape growing out of the ground at angles that make drawing perspective a nightmare.

I created this painting on PastelMat, using soft pastels. It measures 0.5m x 0.7m.