These are quick paintings of these castle ruins in Hohentwiel, Germany.  During the summer,  I went on a hike with my cousin to the castle ruins, I painted a few primary observations as I was walking along the trail. Both these paintings were completed around in 20 minutes. I vaguely and quickly sketched the shapes with grey watercolour and I then started to build up the painting with darker tones. I then used colour pencils to make areas darker and to speed up the process. I used fine liner to go around areas to make it bolder. If I had to do this again, I would probably not use colour pencils as it looks messier and should have taken a bigger size brush to speed the process. I would use these paintings as references if I were to paint it in a different medium such as acrylic to develop this piece further. Also, I would scan these paintings and use photoshop and merge them together and use the opacity tool. This would make the painting look like an illusion. I am pleased with the painting of the castle and the blue sky however, I am not satisfied with the  one I’m in the castle as it looks messier because of the colour pencils.