Sunday, April 8, 2018

Expanding Archaeological Sketches



Palastruine at Carnuntum
Watercolour, oil pastel and marker
©2018 Charlene Brown


This painting is the second enlargement of one of the sketches I made during a Travel Study Program in theBalkans in 2014.  As I mentioned when I posted the original sketch, this part of the Roman archaeological site at Carnuntum, about half way between Vienna and Bratislava, was so large and elaborate that it was mistakenly labelled the palastruine (Palace Ruin).  It is, in fact, a spa complex, possibly the largest Roman Baths north of the Alps.