Returning home, I set out to this beautiful place using photos from our visit.
I made a good start with the sky and the background trees and mountains, but when it was time to render the architecture, which I consider my strong point, I hit the proverbial brick wall. I don't know how many times I worked and re-worked the buildings, never getting them "right". I moved on to the rest of the painting, convincing myself it was OK, not great, but OK. I was not surprised when it evoked only polite, luke warm reactions from viewers. I eventually place the painting in some hidden corner in the studio where it languished for several years...until last week.
I don't know why, but I woke up one morning with the very clear idea that I could salvage that painting. The first step involved re-painting the village and re-working the middle ground trees and foliage. This time, for reasons I don't understand, the task was easy and I was pleased with the results
.The second step was to improve on the immediate foreground, breaking up the rather boring horizontal strip that it was.
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