Wabi–sabi (侘寂 ) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. (from Wikipedia) Yes, I found Japanese wabi-sabi at the Roman Colosseum. Beautiful textures crumbling down one into the other, on a […]
View post →Playing with watercolors at the Roman Colosseum. Oh yes, that was a very good day. 🙂 posted by Veronica FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! In our new Facebook group, One Watercolor A Day, (view it HERE) we’ll be encouraging readers to follow along with the exercises on a weekly basis, and post their results. We’d love to […]
View post →Playing with watercolor at the Colosseum in Rome…I can’t really think of a better way to spend an afternoon. Especially when it ends with pasta and vino. 😉 posted by Veronica
View post →No really, it’s big. That crazy Roman Colosseum. Had trouble fitting it into my pad. I like that kind of trouble. 😉 posted by Veronica
View post →How wonderful it is to sit and play with art in the Piazza Navona, while eating a tartufo. Rome…the city where color is king. What a fantastic trip. posted by Veronica
View post →This is the last drawing I’m posting here from my Rome trip which I did in the cab from the airport to capture what I was seeing hundred-fold on the streets around me: chain-smoking locals crammed into sardine cans traversing a breathtakingly beautiful landscape.
View post →An impromptu drawing of breakfast at the magnificent, lovely, opulent St. Regis in Rome. In the background you can see the enormous lobby with its baroque décor which an extremely fancy version of what a friend of mine used to call a “plumber’s nightmare”.
View post →This is another drawing from my trip to Rome. I had an hour to kill before departing to the airport, and decided to spend my remaining euros at the local “Cafe Bar” across the street from my hotel. The drawing kept growing, and the owner (pictured not very flatteringly with the upturned collar in the […]
View post →On my recent travels to Rome I took the time to do a little drawing, and this is my favorite one of that trip: One of the shady “gladiators” outside the Colosseum. He and his collegues were not overly thrilled at my attentions, so I had to do the sketch as fast as I could […]
View post →A Roman fantasy, I drew this in the Piazza Navona, just before enjoying some nice gelatto. I miss Rome. Posted by Veronica.
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