Advancing with Watercolor: Seeing the Big Mid Tone Pienza, Old and New

This is part four of a mutipart series stemming from a recent trip to Florence Italy along with 10 other artists. We traveled to the Hill town of Pienza for a day of painting watercolor in the open air. The subject in this work is the play of light and shadow across the old buildings, and eventually the tourists. I use the idea of simplifying my motif into 3 tones lights, darks, and a large midtone as represented by the shadow. You can learn more about plain air watercolor and all things related to w