Fauvism

“Best summer of our lives.”

Golden rays of late afternoon sun cascade across cobblestones, setting the fruit vendors' rainbow displays ablaze while casting long shadows beneath striped market awnings and an ancient church spire piercing the peachy sky. The loose, romantic watercolor technique perfectly captures that ineffable Parisian je ne sais quoi, with gestural brushstrokes suggesting bustling shoppers and floating wisps of baguette-scented air. Listen, if this doesn't make you want to blow your savings on a one-way ticket to Paris and live out your entire Ratatouille fantasy, I don't know what will.

© Sean August Horvath