This painting was done on location in a neighborhood called Pirajussara, in a town called Embu, Brazil. The housing is built up along a narrow valley with sloping hills that goes for as far as the eye can see. Most of the buildings in this view are red brick and plaster with tin or slate tile roofs. Instead of trying to portray the detail in this painting I went with a more abstract approach. In the last painting I posted from this trip it was much more detailed, but lacked a bit of the feeling of the scene. Cilei's nephew Victor was also painting the same scene with me, and I noticed that his work portrayed the sky, the sun, and the children playing with kites in the neighborhood, rather than focusing on the dense buildings. I plan do do larger version of the scene, incorporating some of the thoughts and feelings that I noted when doing this work on location, to capture the "ethos".
8 x 10" cold press, Watercolour, January 2017
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