Studio/Institution: architectural ART studio Client: None. I teach sketching to American students in Italy Genre: Other Software: Ink, markers and color pencils Website: http://www.architecturaARTstudios.com Description:
This sketch is a labor of love and literally took me four years and three trips to Vicenza to complete. I'm a huge fan of Andrea Palladio. I have the good fortune to teach architectural sketching to American students in Florence and Venice during the summers. While I am on site I have to help my students, so each time I visited the Villa Rotonda I was able to keep piecing it together, little by little.
I remember Frank Ching once telling me how difficult it was years later to go back and edit his hand lettered texts because his lettering style changed with time. I to had a hard time, once I started the sketch and then literally two years had passed, lighting conditions had changed and so did the brand of pens I brought with me.
I have a matching sketch of Palladio's Villa Barbaro that I completed over a period of several years and I hope someday to complete a Triptic of Palladio's Villas.
My other fascination is to sketch Castles, I have a few completed in the same style and medium as the Villa Rotunda. Hopefully, more to come.
