View of Assisi, Italy

Recently finished watercolor painting from my summer painting trip to Italy! I had started this piece on my trip, creating the drawing from life sitting gazing up at this amazing view of the hilltop town of Assisi. The drawing was difficult due to  the complexity of the town's architecture, but with anything that seems daunting.....I took a deep breath and said "here it goes!"  I first started by  mapping put the different layers of buildings and arches that make up the basilica and monastery of San Francesco which is the primary building cluster in the front of the composition.  Once the larger structures were placed then I could fill in the rest of the smaller buildings including the medieval imperial fortress of Rocca Maggiore on the top of the hill... in the foreground azalea flowers bloomed.  The town, background and sky are done with watercolor only whereas the foreground grasses and flowers are a combination of watercolor with pastel on top.