Forum from my Travel Sketchbooks

Orginally posted at urbansketchers

A stunning city indeed. Especially an ancient city that is 6226 miles or 10020 kilometers away from where I live. Different from my fellow urbansketchers who posted earlier, I did a sketch right inside the heart of Roman Forum. There were people around me walking, talking and peeping into my sketches with such warm smiles I would never forget.

I saw other sketchers too.....one of them might be you! *smile*.

In the queue

Rome05, originally uploaded by tiastudio.

While waiting in the queue to get into Colosseum, I had a very short time to do this sketch as the queue was moving quite fast under the hot sun in the summer. I like the white space a lot.

Colosseum from my Travel Sketchbooks

Colosseum, originally uploaded by tiastudio.

Inspired by Liz's post from urbansketchers, this is a sketch I did inside the Colosseum under the shade next to a huge coloumn in the summer. Rapid lines are best for travelling sketches when you don't want your travelling partners to wait too long.

St. Peter from my Travel Sketchbook

Vatican City, originally uploaded by tiastudio.

I wish I can go back to Europe and fill up another sketchbook but the distance from Singapore to Rome is 6226 miles or 10020 kilometers and a typical flight between Singapore and Rome is easily 15 to 18 hours. So, I am happy I'd done a sketch on St. Peter, Vatican City in one of my travel sketchbooks.

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Spanish Steps, Rome

Rome, originally uploaded by tiastudio.

This quick sketch took me about 5 minutes as I suddenly found myself in a crowd when Rome had just won the football match that day. The street was begining to fill with people waving big and small flags plus sound from the car horns as I stood opposite and added very quick lines for the steps.

Pantheon, Rome

Pantheon, originally uploaded by tiastudio.

I remember this took me a little longer to draw as there was distraction from the conversations, tourists, movements around me at this manificient building. About 30 minutes. When I was to add the details to the cupola, it was about 4pm in the afternoon and the sun light was already moving upward so I had to make some 'adjustments'. This had resulted in a darker shades on top. Hmmmm, go ahead if you want to call it a mistake! HA!