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14 Sketches from Italy
[by Stephanie Bower, Seattle] I arrived in Italy and made my way straight to the beautiful hilltown of Orvieto, north of Rome. Across from my hotel was the amazing duomo, famous for its facade and the horizontal stone banding both inside and out. I went a bit nuts with this sketch, as I only had 1.5 hours till my taxi would arrive, so my pencil and watercolor flew!! (I've added it again at the bottom of this post so that you can click on it and see the detail.)
I walked around town and did 5 sketches all in the same day...I was trying out a new sketchbook, the 7"x10" Pentalic AquaJournal--the paper I knew well but the format and size were totally new to me. It occurred to me that I might not have enough pages in the sketchbook to last for 6 weeks of travel, so I decided to do 2 images per page...in the end, it became a format I would repeat everywhere I went, as I loved being able to see sketches side by side.
Below are my 4 sketches from Orvieto (makes me think I should always sketch with jet lag) and below that is the series I did in Civita di Bagnoregio, the the town where I've been teaching a workshop for 5 years!
To the left is my favorite of the sequence sketches, done late in the day in the heat...
For me, Urban Sketching is about capturing my experiences on paper and learning about what I see through the act of drawing and painting...so all these are sketched and painted on location.
During the workshop, I figured out that it was useful to not only do thumbnails for perspective, but also thumbnails for my approach to painting. Each step is numbered in sequence, and folks took photos of this as a way to remember the process. I start with the furthest element, the sky, then work my way forward in space. Below the thumbnail is the actual demo sketch.
Below is a view of the main piazza. I love to paint a yellow ochre sky to indicate the really intense Italian heat...we were melting!
And last, two views from our workshop field trip to the nearby Villa Lante, a famous Renaissance Italian garden. It was glorious to sit in the shade and listen to the water in the fountains...
Thanks so much to all the workshop participants, our days were packed, weren't they? I can't wait until next year!!
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