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A busy day in downtown Petra
Watercolour and crayon
©2015 Charlene Brown
A few weeks ago, I posted a ‘bleached,distressed, colourized photograph taken at Kerak, a Crusader castle in southern
Jordan.
At the time I was reminded that I have
always hoped to return to Jordan, especially Petra - sometimes described as the ‘rose-red
city, half as old as time...’ - to paint a really exuberant picture of the
Nabatean and Roman structures carved into the cliff face there.
But
going to Jordan isn’t what it used to be. Apparently there are still a few tourists
going to Petra, but I’m not going to be one of them until things settle down. I based 'A busy day in downtown Petra' on this careful little sketch I made after a very brief visit to Petra in 1993.
