Showing posts with label Venice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venice. Show all posts
Venezia III
24 June 2020
1690 Campiello Fondamenta S. Sebastiano
Ponte Storto
Campo drio il Cimitero
Calle de la Madalena
Too hot today to do any sustained drawing, so I just did some very quick, five minute sketches of Venice, thanks to Google StreetView.
Venice sketch
28 February 2013
Working on ideas for a new linocut.
Rio dei Frari, Venezia. Pencil on paper, A4.
I've done this scene as a print before, but that was years ago. (Well, about five.) Might be interesting to see if I can do it better this time. I'd really like to get the looseness of these pencil lines into the linocut.
Venice linocut, final stages
19 August 2010
To complete the Venice print, I added a darker layer...
...and then an even darker layer. (There is actually a difference between these two pictures; it's clearer on the print than it is on screen.)
Venice. Linocut, 10 x 10cm.
This is view of the bridge over the Rio de Barcaroli, joining the Campiello dietro la Chiesa and the Piscina de Frezzaria.
...and then an even darker layer. (There is actually a difference between these two pictures; it's clearer on the print than it is on screen.)
This is view of the bridge over the Rio de Barcaroli, joining the Campiello dietro la Chiesa and the Piscina de Frezzaria.
When it goes wrong
11 August 2010
I tried to add another layer to the Venice print. It's a transparent blue, to create some more shadows on the buildings and the water. But the extender, that's the stuff you add to the ink to make it transparent, isn't sticky like ordinary ink.
Instead, it's slippery, and the linoblock moves when it goes through the press. A lot of the prints ended up like this:
A few printed correctly. The trick to get it to work seemed to be to put much less ink onto the block than usual.
It's going to be a very small edition.
Instead, it's slippery, and the linoblock moves when it goes through the press. A lot of the prints ended up like this:
A few printed correctly. The trick to get it to work seemed to be to put much less ink onto the block than usual.
It's going to be a very small edition.
More hare, more Venice
06 August 2010
Another layer on the hare:
Not sure about this; the hare is OK, but the grass and leaves in the background are a bit strong.
I've printed a blend from dark blue to salmon pink, at an angle. OK so far, but there's a long way to go.
Not sure about this; the hare is OK, but the grass and leaves in the background are a bit strong.
I've printed a blend from dark blue to salmon pink, at an angle. OK so far, but there's a long way to go.
Hare and Venice
04 August 2010
While I try to find a way of cleaning that linoblock, I've started two more smaller (10 x 10cm) linocuts. Here are the first stages:
Venice: Day 4
09 July 2007
Rio dei Frari
Urban sketching in Venice: The problem with painting in Venice is that whichever way you turn, there is another stunning view of a canal crossed a quaint bridge, and lined by crumbling Renaissance palaces.
(It's not really a problem.)
Rio del Frescede
Piazza Roma
A quick sketch while waiting for the bus back to the airport.
Marco Polo airport
Venice: Day 3
08 July 2007
Rio dell Erimete
Urban sketching in Venice: In spite of the hordes of tourists that suffocate St Mark’s Square and the Rialto Bridge, you don’t have to go far to find somewhere quiet, where you can paint undisturbed.
Arsenale
Venice: Day 2
07 July 2007
Urban sketching in Venice: Early morning in Piazza San Marco, before the cruise crowds arrive. View from the Palazzo Ducale of the column with the statue of St Theodore, and a corner of the Libreria Sansoviniana.
After visiting the John Singer Sargent exhibition at the Museo Correr, we tracked down some of the sites where he painted. This is the Campo San Canziano.
Sortie de l’église, de l’église, Campo San Canciano, Venice
John Singer Sargent,1882
Little has changed in 125 years: the buildings, the windows and the doorways are the same. Even that white paint on building on the extreme right is still there. The only thing that seems to have changed is the colour of the main building.
Venice: Day 1
06 July 2007
Urban sketching in Venice: The view south down the Grand Canal, from a corner of the Rialto Bridge, inches from the water. I’m using the Grand Canal as a water supply, and to wash my brushes in.
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