From the shooting wall

Plaça de Sant Felip Neri is some kind of quiet bubble inside the Gothic Quarter, with a curious light that passes through the tree leaves… and with a bloody story. The church (on my back as I did the drawing) was nearly destroyed in 1938 by a bombardment of the Franco’s air force during the Spanish Civil War. Shortly after, when the fascists finally took Barcelona, they used the facade as firing squad wall. Marks can be seen on this video filmed by Evanescence in 2003, where Amy Lee appears sitting on one of the tree branches and walking round the fountain border.

My first intention was to draw the shooting marks but I got suddenly attracted by the opposite view. I’ll come back.

The last view of the condemned should be similar to this scene.

Surely with less color.