I took my 'Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe' DVD with me to Joans and we watched it together in intervals over the weekend.
Early Sunday afternoon we paused it in a couple of places and sketched.
This is Assisi Cathedral, sketched from a different angle than I have previoulsy sketched it.
Noodlers Walnut ink and watercolour
Assisi is my preparation sketch this time and the Basilica of St Francis.
Noodlers red/blk in and a splash of watercolour..A timed sketch of 10 mins.
I am frustrated by the shadow I'm getting when scanning these spreads, the pages are causing a slight ridge that the scanner seems to emphasise....Annoying! This would make things tricky if I wanted to do anything with the sketches I make during my actual trip on my return. I do have a couple of sketchbooks filled with same paper, made by the same company that are accordian in style. They come complete with fancy boxed covers and as they are accordian...they lie completely flat. The trick would be keeping the pages together while I sketch so they don't cascade all over the place on location but I think two carefully placed elastic bands would solve this.
I am so pleased I decided to test the sketchbook before I go. Other perks to creating a preparation sketchbook is that I have somewhere to channel my overwhelming excitement, which I am sure is boring my family rigid, and I get to see what kind of palette I will require...as I intend to take a more limited palette than the one I use at home but with bigger wells so I don't run out of the colours I need.
Assisi Cathedral and a few questions to ask the travel agent when I called.
Lexington Gray Noodlers ink and watercolour in my A5 Italian trip preparation sketchbook.
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