Ok, so the August watercolor painting challenge on the artist site to which I subscribe is "local historic buildings." I am bound and determined to learn to paint buildings. Most pictures of the Mission are not all that interesting, at least imho. This one, though, rather caught my attention. I thought I could have a go at it. So here it is. I didn't wet the paper totally before I began, and found out that I should have. The tree behind the rosemary on the right hand side needed to be a different color so that there was more of a distinction between the two. I didn't include too much detail in this because it was my first attempt and I wanted to try getting the essence of the building before I tried mastering the building. Its a big stucco building, but I think I did a fair job for my first attempt.
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