09/09/2017
"In the evening, the sheep come down", Italy 🐑🐑🐑
This plein air watercolour painting was painted close to my accommodation in the Marches region of Italy, close to the border with Umbria. I set out to capture the evening light and, at the same time, to tell a story of how the sheep come into that part of the pasture to graze at that time of day. Every evening I watched them come down to the area of yellowed grass between the trees, the bells that some of them were wearing round their necks ringing. Beyond that, are the rolling hills and farms typical of the Italian countryside.