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I have recently returned from a trip to Italy.  I have learned to pack VERY lightly with respect to clothing items, in order to make way for my painting apparatus.  The handy half-French easel you see in this shot folds up to fit in my suitcase.  The tubes of paint don't take up too much room, but as all traveling painters know, they are very heavy.  I usually run up against the weight limits for checked luggage before I run out of room in the suitcase!  But it is all worth it for the thrill of painting on location, in front of vistas I have never seen before.  In this shot, I am painting a small fishing village that drops precipitously down to the sea.  I was drawn to the shadows at this time of day.  They seemed to angle downward, just like the village houses angled downward to the shore.