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Intense and colorful Sketch Tour Portugal in Alentejo!

[by Marion Rivolier traveling in Alentejo, Portugal]

I was glad to be invited by Mário Linhares to travel in Alentejo during 6 days for the event Sketch Tour Portugal. My host sketcher was João Moreno.
The region of Alentejo is huge, covering almost a third of the country. We were mostly in the Northeast. We visited ten towns in five days: Evora, Estremoz, Marvao, Elvas, etc. For me, visiting this region for the first time, it was a lot to discover and to understand: beautiful landscapes, picturesque cities perched at the top of the hills, different styles and periods of architecture and art.

I liked the relationship between architecture and nature: villages grow from the rocks and vegetation. It was interesting to capture the contrasts between white villages and the warm colors of farmed plains. I played with the strong contrast between white houses, churches, fountains, and the sky. Sky is very important. It can completely change our perception of a place, if it is tormented or pure Azure blue.

When you travel a lot and discover a region for the first time, it is difficult to immediately focus on a subject. Because you are always in a perpetual state of discovery, and you need time to take a step back and choose a subject to address throughout the trip. We didn’t have that kind of time.
So I searched, and tried different ways to capture the region of Alentejo.

In Evora, I painted a water tower, a modern structure that stood out a bit in the old town, which I liked. I chose to reveal the strangeness in a picturesque place “frozen in time.” This is this thread that I decided to follow: to show what is hidden, to reveal a strangeness, a beauty (or not) in places imprisoned in their history.

When we stopped on the edge of the road to capture the glowing view of the battlements of Monsaraz, it was amazing. The hill, trees and houses were kind of glowing. I only had time to put the red-pink on the paper as the landscape transformed and became green again. This was a disappointment, but we had the chance to see it for a few minutes and capture the essence of the light! 

 I tried to capture what we do not see, which disappears too quickly. What is hidden, that is not visible at first glance. It is not the picturesque that interests me, but the story that we feel when we go through a place. This is what I want to capture, impressions and sensations. I do this through colors, light, shadows and contrasts.

It was the first time I met João Moreno. After a few hours together, I realized our time together would be fun and smart. Even if we don’t have the same “sketch style,” we like to use colors and to practice watercolor. We were looking for beautiful light and subjects with a lot of values and colored contrasts. João knows the region of Alentejo and the history of art very well. During our travels, he told me about the different places we went through. We spent a lot of time talking about technique: choices of watercolors, brushes in natural hair or not, why we prefer to use this kind of brush or colors, etc. We had long conversation about the paper of the Laloran sketchbooks we received for the SketchTourPortugal: how to tame the paper? How to use water? We both like to play with lots of water and sometimes it was a problem because of the humid atmosphere…
Meeting João was fantastic and artistic. Thank you to Mário for imagining this combination!

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