Good booze always gives birth to good conversation and good sketching experiments. This one was done thanks to the tasty craft beer served in Mercato, a relatively recent beer shack in Elvas.

Some heavy clouds insisted on participating in the 26th sketch meeting of Urban Sketchers Raia in Elvas, so some experimenting with wet-on-rain watercolor was in order.

The small Museum of Sacred Art in Elvas is a meandering sequence of stairways, rooms and corridors – wrapped around the cathedral walls – leading to a couple of precious paintings by 16th century Spanish artist Luis de Morales. Urban Sketchers Raia made it the location for their 26th sketch meeting, seeking shelter from the stabbing cold and the stubborn rain.