Minaret in Tunis

Capturing a moment at day's end

This is mostly painted in watercolor, but I used gouache just for the sky, because I couldn’t capture the smooth, even gradient in transparent watercolor.

From a sketching trip to Malta, Tunisia, and Morocco.

I try not to get nervous when a soldier with a machine gun watches me paint. But this guy in the medina of Tunis was very cool. There was a languag…