Red Roofs, Blue Steeple, Moody Sky, Adelaide Lawson Expressionistic Oil on Canvas Sketch/Fragment hopi bowl A little paint loss here

A little paint loss here and there as evident

that the softness and mystery of it is due to the fact that it is a sandpaper painting--a  technique popular in the mid 19th century

revealing a small ruler

) It could be made in one yet

Red Roofs, Blue Steeple, Moody Sky, Adelaide Lawson Expressionistic Oil on Canvas Sketch/Fragment hopi bowl A little paint loss hereOne last piece by Adelaide Lawson Gaylor today. I'm not entirely sure whether this oil on canvas painting was a fragment of a larger work or, I think much more likely, a complete work on a scrap of canvas, likely painted en plein air and looks like a view of an Italian hill town to me. It certainly feels complete as is, and full of energy, marvelous sky over those distinctive red terra cotta roofs with church steeply rising highest against the blue