The Pantheon, though you can barely see it, and that's kind of the point. I painted it the way you actually experience it walking through Rome: not a postcard shot, but a sudden glimpse down a narrow street, squeezed between two buildings.
The wall on the right is that deep, warm ochre color you see all over the city, painted almost flat and solid. It plays off the Pantheon itself, all columns and dome, rendered in cooler grays and whites. I liked that contrast: warm versus cool, plain versus ornate, an ordinary street next to something that's stood for almost 2,000 years.
Watercolor on paper, painted from a photo I took while traveling in Rome.
The Pantheon, though you can barely see it, and that's kind of the point. I painted it the way you actually experience it walking through Rome: not a postcard shot, but a sudden glimpse down a narrow street, squeezed between two buildings.
The wall on the right is that deep, warm ochre color you see all over the city, painted almost flat and solid. It plays off the Pantheon itself, all columns and dome, rendered in cooler grays and whites. I liked that contrast: warm versus cool, plain versus ornate, an ordinary street next to something that's stood for almost 2,000 years.
Watercolor on paper, painted from a photo I took while traveling in Rome.
