Lovely Guimarães (Reference for Painting)

I am getting ready to start another watercolor, this time based on a photo that I took on a busy street in Guimaraes.  For the past few days, I have been working on transforming the photo in a painting reference. I used some of Painter's digital magic to remove a number of parked cars and unsuspecting pedestrians (posted here July 23 and 24). The final step was to get the square image into a rectangular format.  So again I used Painter to add space to the top and bottom of the image. Then I used cut-and-paste and digital pastel to add the missing information (sky, building, cobblestone). Finally, I printed the image and am ready to start the painting tomorrow.