These are the rest of my sketches from the last two weeks in Hallein, Austria. As I’m not used to driving with heavy snow on the roads I tended to move around more on sunny days. Hence the clear skies in many of these pieces.
The first few are from Salzburg, a city rightly famous for it’s beauty. It also has a really Italian feel to it as a couple of the architects who designed the major structures hailed from Italy.
The next ones are from the small villages in the foothills of the Alps around Salzburg.
And the last two are from just over the border into Southern Germany.
These paintings as well as some enlarged studio pieces (done from these sketches) will be in a group show of local landscapes in Hallein in June.
If Monet’s pictures made Cezanne “turn up his collar,” then yours make me put on several layers of polartec, my double-insulated boots, and my wetsuit face mask! Bravo to your usual brilliance, and for giving us a truly truthful expression of what it’s like to be outside!
What wonderful paintings of a beautiful city and country I love very much. I went to university in Salzburg for 2 years, many years ago but my love for Salzburg has never faded. Your wonderful paintings really capture the feeling and the cold! I’m enjoying looking at them very much especially as I am an aspiring painter mysely. Beautiful. Wish I were there. Carol Stein
Simple and beautiful.