Portas de Monsaraz - Gates of Monsaraz

Monsaraz, like some other villages in the Alentejo Province of Portugal, is a place apart, a time machine that assaults the senses at every corner. Looking at my photos from a year ago,  I heavily cropped this scene from a wide view of a side street and used it as a reference for the painting.

Watercolor 23x31cm, Winsor & Newton paper, rough