PORT-VERMEIL
Spring · Year I

CÉZANNE CITY

a port town, worked in paint

You don't place buildings here. You draw — a road, a ring of ground, a line of trees — and the town takes it from there, its own way. Begin with a road along the shore.

« Le paysage se pense en moi. » — Cézanne

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How this painting is worked

Make a mark. See what the town does with it. Answer it, or let it stand. Then put the brush down and look.

Paint with the left mouse · pan with right-drag or space-drag · zoom with the wheel · 1–9 pick tools · S settles · M changes the manner · space pauses

The manner button repaints the whole canvas in one of Cézanne's periods: the dark early palette-knife, the impressionist touch, the constructive stroke, the late translucent planes.

What you scrape away leaves a scar in the paint. Nothing goes back to blank canvas.