The second component of my course load in Italy was plein air landscape painting. These took anywhere from 30 minutes to six hours, but I can’t lie about having just laid back and enjoyed being outside instead of painting when I was feeling particularly tired…
W&N watercolor and Holbein gouache on Arches hot press and Canson Mi-Teintes toned paper.
This summer I flew to Italy to study journalistic drawing, the observational recording of visual truths. Stationed in Viterbo, a city which retains its narrow, crisscrossed medieval streets, I was essentially given the instruction to draw what I see and draw constantly.
This is a journey through that city, dotted at every nook and cranny with motorini, roaming through arch-lined paths cut by the cracks of cobbles and piercing light.
Fineliner and W&N watercolor on Arches hot press paper. Prints of these works can be found here.
Inspiration Haven 