The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome in Italy |
Sketch Book
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Moleskine Sketch Book: the moleskine of ItalyMy preferred kind of sketchbook traces it's lineage to Italy, via an art store in Pasadena. But I only realized that tidbit while I was sketching a rock in Paestum. I happened to flip to the inside cover, trying to sqoosh a bug, and noticed a made in Italy label. Reproduced based upon sketchbooks and notebooks from two centuries ago, the manufacturer claims this sketch book design was a favorite of Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway, and other famous artists, intellectuals, and alcoholics. Heck, I just liked it for the elastic band keeping it shut. But apparently, I'm in the good company of the drunk, the insane, and the clinically depressed. |
Pages 11, 12 Sketch BookIt's been years, but sketching skills returning. I can feel it. |
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Pages 15, 16| Sketch Book And all of the sketching skills have just as easily gone away again with a few drinks. |
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Orange Sketch Book Sketchbook: orange Thanks Ed. I shall use it while sipping cynar. But the drawings under the influence of cynar probably won't be very pretty. |
Dogs of Italy