Gordes on a hot afternoon

Gordes (oil on wood 25cm x 32cm)

Painting the impossible, here.  I am trying to paint the space around the buildings as much as the buildings themselves - the sky becomes dominant.  The  idea is to get as much as possible down in a couple of hours, shuffling around chasing shade.  It was 35 degrees C!  Like many of my current sketches, it is painted on an earthy red ground.