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Durnstein, Austria
Watercolour and ink
©2011 Charlene Brown
This is the postcard I sent to Robyn Sinclair when I was on
a Danube-Rhine River Cruise, and she wrote some very nice things about it on A Postcard From My Walk.
I did the sketch and started painting it on the top deck
(where I was unable to find a corner to back into) as we were leaving Durnstein
to sail on up to Melk.
I have recently
completed a 6-week course in writing Flash Fiction (really short stories – much
like my blog posts). I learned to
minimize the word count by starting in the middle of the action and using
dialogue to define characters and move things along quickly. So here’s the rest
of this post as the script for a play: The Drama of Painting Plein Air.
Roving art critic:
What’s this big thing on the hill?
Artist: The ruin of
the castle where Richard the Lion Heart was imprisoned on his way home from the
Third Crusade.
Critic: It doesn’t
look that big.
Artist: I was up
there this morning, and I know it’s huge. And the mountain it’s on is much
higher than it looks from here.
Critic: And is the
forest purple when you get up there? It just
looks sort of tree-coloured from here…
Artist: Yes, it is
very purple when you get up there.
