I've snatched another title for this piece (and one for the post), again just using my colour values system...
[Tuscany, mixed media collagraph and painting on canvas]I got carried away, taking these photographs, using some rough-prepped canvases as a backdrop...
As luck would have it, google images returned a suitably idyllic vista as visual reference, a Tuscan sunset...
And all this brought back some memories. Although I have never stayed in Tuscany, I once travelled through it. At the age of 18 (although I think I must have been 19 by the time we returned), I back-packed with two other friends across Europe, travelling through Italy by train, stopping off at Milan, Venice, Bologna, Pisa, Rome, Naples (and Pompeii), and then on to the port of Brindisi... I don't remember the landscape looking like this...I managed to complete three more of these collagraph canvases today, their titles and back stories to be revealed in future posts. We have had three days of intermittent power-cuts, for no apparent reason, resulting in having to heat water for tea in a pan on the fire and toasting hot-cross buns, which taste so much better in a crisis...