Plein Air Watercolors
Toady I just needed a break and to do something different.
Watercolors!
Watercolor is not the most practical medium to take around on a day like today where it is threatening rain because it takes so long to dry. I wasn’t in any hurry though and was looking for a change of pace and different way of working.
Here are a few watercolors from today in the area of The Basilica of Saint John in Lateran, which is Rome’s first church built by Constantine.
Here is a closer view of the Basilicas from just across the street.
You might notice that my watercolors are a little dashed off or for me they are fun, freeing and wild. They are purely for the joy of painting and capturing a place and always an experiment since I am not primarily a watercolor painter.
Play and experimentation are essential to just remember to relax and have fun and that the job of an artist is not always to produce a highly finished project.
This final watercolor is from one of my favorite museums with a great garden, Palazzo Barberini. There are loads of things to paint in the relatively small courtyard and garden and under these arches was the perfect place to camp out and get this little watercolor of the fountain looking through the arches.
