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
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Posted by: bobo | March 13, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Wonderful art to see here. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for coming by my blog today and leaving me such a lovely comment. Much appreciated. I will return here for sure. Lot's to learn from the likes of you!
Posted by: Lynn | March 13, 2012 at 09:57 PM
All beautiful, Laura! I especially like the four Roman heads, and how you've used the warm and cool colors in drawing them.
Posted by: Beth | February 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Great strength and energy! I love those sketches!
Posted by: Cathy | February 18, 2012 at 04:54 AM
Always lovely to follow you to one of those cities inhabited by the beautiful--and, I suppose, therefore always welcoming, at least in your version of them.
Posted by: marly youmans | February 17, 2012 at 05:45 PM
ah at last my Rome portrayed by your magic fluid hand...you can be as baroque as Tiepolo's sketches, really. I w'd have expected the angel with a snow cap though;-) xoxo, Concetta (PS it's starting to warm up now after a very cold week, below freezing.)
Posted by: concetta flore | February 16, 2012 at 05:28 PM