For this trip, I limited my art supplies to:
3 waterbrush pens filled with Payne's Gray, sepia, and cerulean ink
1 Pigma brush pen in burnt sienna
My blue Portuguese laundry pencil
2 Cretacolor oil pencils in sepia and soft black
a lightweight plastic travel palette with manganese blue, burnt sienna, transparent pyrole orange
1 travel watercolor brush
A big Pitt Artist pen in warm gray
Then I bought a box of cheap colored pencils for children at Poggi's. I used the orange one a lot!
I left my Stillman and Birn sketchbook at home (!) in my packing haste and had to buy a Daler and Rowny Ebony one, also at Poggi's.
Here are more of what I did with these:
Here's my stepson Lee, at lunch with my daughter Cecelia and me. I put that orange pencil to work!
As a reminder, here's an earlier scene of that same cafe
I have a few more sketches from Rome. Soon!












This loosening up is necessary because I'm going to Rome next Tuesday to see my daughter Cecelia (she who never stands still) and hope to get some sketches of Rome (think fountains) done while I'm there. She, as you may remember, is an avid sketcher now, so we can enjoy this together. I'm also meeting up with 


























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