Hillside Farm Also

Another from the lets get some sun and have a picnic series. This area is full of these sorts of buildings all angles and trees, with no visible way of reaching them, they always seem to be such mystical places tucked away on the side of the mountains.

Hillside Farm

A painting of one of the abandoned farms I sketched whilst out last weekend, working from the initial drawings and colour notes I painted this in a style similar to the last picture. There are so many trees its difficult to come up with a wide variety of greens to depict the foliage, especially as I am colour blind and its all orange anyway.

The Secret Monastery

Quick sketches of La Preg, side view
The much altered rear view

La Preghiera, (the prayer) is in parts over 1000 years old and started out as a monastery serving the monks of the area. The road past the front of the complex is on the St Francis trail from Cortona to Assisi so it is highly likely that he stayed here, ate bread and maybe said a prayer in the Oratorio. Now it has been completely refurbished and is an Agritourismo where you can spend a peaceful vacation absorbing the calm of the area. I luckily work here so get to sit in these beautiful surrounds on a daily basis.