I spent 4 nights in a little village, high up in the mountains in mainland Greece ( Northern Peloponneso), enjoying the late November sunshine, eating traditional Greek vegetarian food cooked by the Airbnb owner. I managed to create two oil paintings from my time there. The sun just lit up the tree in the foreground, transforming the scene into a blazingly bold glow of colour.
The second is quite different, as I wanted to convey the ethereal qualities of hazy smoke rising from the chimneys, and the way the light picked out certain areas. The scenes in both paintings were just meters away from each other, but facing 90 degrees apart. A little old lady appeared at the gate of her house just in time to be included! The trees here though were almost bare, except for a few persistent golden leaves.They almost dance towards each other, happy to be free.
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