Pub drawing from Friday

Drawings from Italy 12

Last post on the Italy drawings - Airport/Airplane drawings on the way there and back!

Comments welcome.

Drawings from Italy, 11

 

A couple of my favourites today. Beach in Capri as it says on the bottom of the image on the left, and on the right, some ruins drawn in Pompeii - which is an amazing place and I was looking forward to actually sitting in it and drawing something. These gardens were perfect as it felt like a city healing itself after hundreds of years: an opulent, flowering garden amidst the ruined columns.

Comments welcome.

Drawings from Italy 10

 

While I was in Italy, I bought a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook...it's the best sketchbook I have ever bought! A landscape book, I found it difficult to not draw across a double page spread. I was also able to adapt a style I had been experimenting with at the time, which is to add black ink lines on top of the watercolour drawing.

These were drawn poolside in our hotel in Sorrento!

Comments welcome.

Drawings from Italy part 9

Here's a sketchbook study of a church facade in Umbria. We were traveling back from a vineyard and stopped off on the way back to the hotel for some insect repellant. Strangely, there was a convenience store and a chemist next to a huge church! It was an unusual sight especially in the middle of fields!

Comments welcome.

Drawings from Italy 8

Studies of pool side bathers!

Umbria, Italy.

Comments welcome.

Drawings from Italy 7

First of some colour images today. Studies drawn from inside the Colosseum in Rome and a view from the train window of Mount Vesuvius as we passed it en route to Sorrento.

Comments welcome.

Still out and about...

...more pub!

Out and about

Pub.

Drawings from Italy 6

These were drawn at Perugia train station while waiting for our train to Roma!

Drawings from Italy 5

Lazy days!

Just saw this...

...weird looking guy walked passed my window and had to sketch him!

Turns I was right to suspect.. this has just resulted in a little argument and a fight outside my house!

UPDATE!!

Just added a spot of colour to the image above... I lost the pen for my tablet and so couldn't be bothered to be accurate! Looks quite good though...will let you decide ;)

Drawings from Italy4

One of my favourite times to draw is on the train. This guy proved to be a particularly good model!

Drawings from Italy3

Today's drawings come from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel! I have always wanted to see Michelangelo's famous mural and I was moved to tears. From an artistic standpoint I want to add! You couldn't take photos from inside the Chapel so I did what I do best...and drew! The two sketchbook pages came together quite seamlessly in Photoshop!

Honeymoon in Italy part2

Honeymoon in Italy, August 2012. Here are some beachy bathers!