Murano – Canale San Donato

Venice is lovely, but quite intense. The nearby islands of Murano and Burano offer a respite of calm – both the building and the tourist density on these islands is noticeably lower than the slightly misnamed “Serenissima”.

This painting is fairly faithful to the photo that I took during our visit to Murano, in that I have not removed anybody from the scene – there were genuinely only two people in the frame, as it were. The church, known as Santa Maria e San Donato, is like many in the area apparently full of important relics, but more importantly for this painting it is rather an interesting shape.

I reverted to pen and watercolour to portray this scene, thinking that medium suited this view. In general I think I was correct, although the watercolours fought back a bit and did some things that I neither expected nor wanted. However, hopefully I have covered over the crasser errors to create an acceptable doodle.