The other day we had rain all morning. Finally it seemed to have stopped. I didn’t want to take a chance on getting wet, so I walked over to the San Silvestro vaporetto stop and sat inside the covered waiting area. There are a few seat and the view was pretty good. My paper and I stayed nice and dry.
Many restaurants that are along the canals here have seating outside. It is a nice way to dine and watch the world go by.
Luckily I was able to meet Sandrine for another afternoon before she went back to Paris. I met her outside the Palazzo Grimaldi and we did some shopping in that area. As the afternoon went on we ended up in Saint Mark’s Square. We were lucky and found a bench near the vaporetti and taxi docks. The sky looked lovey and we pulled out our sketchbooks and paints. Of course we continued to paint until we couldn’t see anything any more. It was a great ending to Sandrine’s time here. Hopefully we will cross paths somewhere again!
An urban sketcher from Paris, Sandrine Sla, who I met at several of the USk Symposiums was in Venice taking a workshop. She and I got together twice in the late afternoon to sketch. We sat at a cafe on the Zattere and sketched Giudecca across the canal. It was nice to have some sketching company. We chatted as the sun was going down.
This and other sketches are inside a concertina sketchbook I’ve been working on. I will try to post the whole thing all together when it is finished.
While I was sketching the section of the building yesterday, tourists were constantly blocking my view so I sketched them separately.
Before leaving home l bought a ticket to Saint Mark’s Basilica. I also wanted to go upstairs to see the horses and the view from the balcony. I wasn’t sure I could do all that climbing, but the website said you could purchase that portion at the basilica. Unfortunately the only was you could buy a ticket was to scan the QR code and do it on your phone. But to do that I would need working with-fi and I didn’t have that. I was out of luck. Instead I headed outside to sketch. I sat on a ledge by the bell tower. That was fine until it got crowded and people kept blocking my view. I did the best that I could.
This is a section next to Saint Mark’s Cathedral done in toned paper with ink, a white Posca marker, and watercolors.
