Merry Christmas!!

Yes, I know, it's not original as a text... but anyway I made this simple illustration in a hurry, because I wanted to leave some hand made cards to my closest friends and kindred. I succeded in doing about ten cards like the one I post here. I used carbon paper, watercolor, ecoline and fineliner. Everyone is a bit different. In this I tried to write with a nib pen and red ink but the result was poor... partly becuase the tool didn't just fit (the watery ink and the rough paper) and partly because I suck at hand-writing... Anyway, I still have to begin to deliver these effort.. who knows the reactions!! :P

Sketching Sunday

Hi all!! I want to share some recent sketches I made during the last Sunday. It was a sunny day, a bit cold in respect to what we were got used to during this Novemeber, but I enjoyed a bit of sun in the neighbours of my house. Here it is a study of a bush (dog rose)

Drawing Course 6

Here it is another post about my old drawing course. The exercise is basically the same. We had to make a copy (sorry, can't remember the author), but this time we inked it with fineliner (about 0.1, 0.4, 0.9 diameter). The original is a beautiful etching of a villa:

Sketching nature in October

Here they are some recent sketches done on location. October has been warm and temperate, and also November seems to be the same. These are all from the surroundings of where I live:


A study of a tree, the way to render foliage with fineliner, and some zoom-in of the leaves and seeds (some sort of maple).

Scorcio di Vinci/ Glimpse in Vinci

Ecco uno scorcio a penna fineliner. Purtroppo ho usato una punta troppo marcata per i cespughli sulla destra...

Now the drawing with fineliner I made in Vinci. You can see the castle on the right is the location of the Leonardo museum in this beautiful village. I used a too bold fineliner for the bushes.. but I wasn't  careful enough.

Chiesa di San Martino

Uno sketch della chiesa di San Martino a Serravalle a Empoli.

 A sketch of a church near my home: San Martino a Serravalle. I think I inked it with fineliner after the main lines were traced with pencil.

Viterbo, duomo

Sketch a pennarellino de duomo di Viterbo.

A fineliner sketch of the cathedral of Viterbo. Here is were I sang Verdi's requiem choir on 27 July 2013.

Cipressi

Una tradizione passare a giugno da queste parti con un taccuino.. matita rinforzata da pennarellino indelebile.

It's a tradition for me to enjoy the nature and the peace of this little hill. I can see the Montalbano in a relative isolation, enjoing also the shadow of the cypresses. In pencil reinforced with fineliner.