Sketching Architecture: Rome Sketches

Here are some of my favourite sketches from 9 nights in Rome in 2010. This was part of an 11 week sketching adventure in USA, UK and Italy - what an amazing privilege and experience to spend my Long Service Leave sketching my way through these countries.

It was like a dream come true to be roaming the streets sketching whatever caught my eye.

Click here and here to view the two sketchbooks in there entirety.
I had as my companion George H Sullivan's wonderful book "Not built in a Day"
Included in this selection is a number of more analytical sketches that I did insde my favourite building in Rome - San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini

The inspiration behind this blog:

When one travels and works with visual things – architecture, painting or sculpture – one uses one’s eyes and draws, so as to fix deep down in one’s experience what is seen. Once the impression has been recorded by the pencil, it stays for good, entered, registered, inscribed.
The camera is a tool for idlers, who use a machine to do their seeing for them. To draw oneself, to trace the lines, handle the volumes, organise the surface…all this means first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover…and it is then that inspiration may come.
- Le Corbusier

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