Alba and I were in Zermatt for a wedding this weekend. I had forgotten how beautiful Switzerland can be in the summers. We had great weather and I managed to bat out a couple of sketches in between the festivities.
I enlarged one of the sketches in the studio:
Edelweiss Huts, Zermatt. 70 x 100 cm, oil on linen, 2008
We also passed over the Simplon pass twice on our trip where Sargent painted in the summer of 1911 (?). Its still a very beautiful stretch of road. Most of the traffic into Switzerland goes through the tunnels now and not over the passes, so it has this wonderful abandoned feel to it. Every few miles the scenery changes dramatically as well so you have a huge choice of subjects to paint from. Next time…