What struck me about the exterior of the Jules Verne Museum was the way the historic building sits on the brow of a steep cliff, with a statue of St. Anne atop a long flight of stairs.
So I painted this 7 x 9-inch Sketch on location, trying to imagine it separated from gravity on its own journey to another world.
I worked on a separate piece of hot press Watercolor paper, using fairly traditional watercolor. After laying in the broad masses of the sky, rock, and architecture, I further defined the details and textures using water-soluble colored pencils. This is a fairly fast way to sketch; the whole Painting was finished on location in two and a half hours, but it would have taken me far longer to do the same thing in the studio.
