When I used to walk around Rome doing drawings, I would marvel at the bright colors so many buildings displayed. A common color among older buildings was a brilliant but slightly tawny orange. Almost any building from the 19th century earlier would be this flowery color, even a church. The sky was intensely clear and blue. I tried to reproduce this orange-and-blue combination here in a 1975 study of a corner of "Santa Maria Sopra Minerva." The title translates to "Saint Mary's built on top of a temple of Minerva."
Pencil and colored pencils on sketchbook page, 5" x 10", Rome 1975.
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For a moment I thought it was abstract work, but then I looked again after your post, and the building popped out at me. Great contrast of color.
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