Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Virtual Paintout in Sri Lanka

Just south of Trincomalee
Watercolour and crayon
©2016 Charlene Brown

The Virtual Paintout is in Sri Lanka this month.  This tranquil scene near Mutur shows a thatched cottage on the beach with racks of branches, probably for drying fish, judging from the rows of outrigger canoes lining the shore... or possibly to provide shade for a vegetable garden or for the chickens, should they care to wander outside the basket-weave fence.  Here’s a link to the Streetview the painting is based on. You figure it out…