Alp Grüm (2) Painting

This painting belongs to a series of watercolor paintings capturing the views I collected during a day of plein air painting with a painting group lead by Ingrid Buchthal. We arrived by train at the nicely located train station Alp Grüm high up in the Swiss Alps near by Poschiavo and the Bernina Pass. The day started with a blue sky and a beautiful morning light with stunning mountains all around. I walked up with all my painting equipment to the Restaurant Belvedere from where we later on that day painted the impressive view of the Piz Palü. I also took a lot of photographs over the day that ended up in a series of studio paintings. The painting "Alp Grüm (2)" captured the view in the morning from the Restaurant Belvedere down to the train station Alp Grüm and from there all the way up the stone wall where the eye was almost forced to follow the mountain streams upwards culminating in the snowy tops of the Piz Palü massif. Materials used: Watercolours (Artist Quality) on Hahnemühle mould-made Ingres paper, 100 g/m² Format of the paper: about 46 cm x 64 cm Format of the painting: 60 x 40 cm (it is actually about 1-2 mm larger on each side so that it can be conveniently mounted behind a passepartout with a 40 x 60 cm window).