I somehow, magically, won a trip back to La Romita art school in Terni, Italy! Amazing, and absolutely wonderful!
More travel to beautiful little hill towns, wandering stone-paved streets and under archways dating back to Medieval Italy, before Italy was even a unified nation.
The town of San Gemini, in Umbria, was having their annual festival, Giostra dell'Armes - the jousting of arms. Colorful flags all over this wonderful town perched on cliffs above the rolling hills.
Our tiny class of two students spent a half day wandering and painting. Our instructor, Keiko Tanabe, painted a view across the town to the hills; I liked this old wall with a gate, and the flags of the uphill city quarter flying against the ancient stones. Top sketch done on site, bottom painting done in the art studio at La Romita. I like the trees better in the sketch, but the flags of the final painting are better.
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