Early Sketches of Italy

From the sketchbooks—Italy, 1991-1999

Long before I began painting the architectural watercolors I make today, I carried a small leather-bound sketchbook through Italy. These early pencil drawings—made as an architecture student and on later travels—were some of my first attempts to understand a place through drawing.

Little Sketchbook

A little handmade book

Filled with rough white paper

Bound in leather, secured with a strap

A gift to myself

To fill with memories—

Of Italy.

Villa Emo, Veneto Region, Italy. 1991

The Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy. 1991

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. 1991

The Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 1991

Villa Guilia, Rome, Italy. 1999

The Pantheon, Rome, Italy. 1998

The Twin Santa Marias of Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy. 1999