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Always a fascinating place, Venice, with it’s forever changing color and reflections from the water and the old buildings. Here I offer a collection of Venetian pictures that I have managed over the past couple of years.
Color sketch style
There are so many photographs of this great place that it’ difficult to begin these particular are of random areas and of no particular significance, but rather managed in very different styles.
Modernist Venice
The Grand Canal has not been forgotten as I have included a panorama painted image as the header of the blog, which will feature for this coming week and replacing my Prague watercolor image.
Colored Venice
Next is a colored etching image and one of a series that I managed to produce a couple of years ago for an article. It was highlighting different architectural styles across Europe and this was the picture featuring Venice. Others were Vienna, Dresden, Prague, St Petersburg and so on, in all some 20 different aspects of building style and cultural influences. It was a commission and the remit was a minimum color arrangement which apparently fitted the theme of the article, but it paid well at the time I remember so I was happy to oblige!
Colored etching
So there a few of the many images and illustrations I’ve done of Venice and it’s always a pleasure to visit the city, though it is a must that you do so when it is relatively quiet as the place can be quite overrun with tourists. At those times it’s really quite difficult to see the attractions and just about as difficult to find a quiet spot to draw the odd building.
Something else I used to do in virtually any cit I visited – take a small sketch pad and draw quiet scenes away from the crowds. Usually with the intent of once home, taking these and perhaps expanding on them as paintings or color sketches.
Better than photos I find as there is a vibrancy of a sketch that the flat “snap” photograph just doesn’t have. Of course the odd photo can be very useful indeed to jog the memory and also give a reminder of the colors of the day.
I’ll probably put up some of those basic sketches in a later post and also perhaps show the eventual results.
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