Monday, May 21, 2007

Flickr is already full...

Well I hit my monthly upload limit for Flickr today... hmm. So it looks like I might be uploading to my comp account and rigging it through that - annoying. I could sign up for another Flickr account, but that would kind of defeat the point of uploading the files to many different accounts.
We went to the Vatican Museum today, so I got to see (and sketch) the Sistene Chapel, works by Raphael, Roman statues, and everything in between. The price for this awesome experience? Two and a half hours in a very long line outside and the complete and total loss of any sort of personal bubble for the entire day. Worth it? Definitely. But I do have an understanding of why people hate public transportation. There is nothing like getting nice and intimate with the 10 other people in your vicinity on a metro bus to make you appreciate that we usually drive 1 person to an SUV in the states (if you don't live in a major city that is). The same goes during the line today, and in the Vatican museum. During a good 50% of the time (line and museum), I was elbow to elbow with the people around me, shuffling forward. It is amusing because the Romans and/or Italian visitors have a disregard for personal space and will elbow their way forward (this includes at least 50 old ladies). However, as soon as there are only foreigners around, the line resumes its nicely spaced position.
Anyways, I don't have any pictures to post because I didn't take my camera (I assumed no cameras were allowed, but mainly just no flash - oh well). This allowed me more time for sketching anyways. I'll temporarily link my Rome art to -edit, now working - here, and get a better setup soon.

Ignore the bad quality on the sketches - I'm taking pictures with my digital camera and trying my best to do some photoshop magic on them, but the lighting is still horible.

5 comments:

TransAmFan said...

Beautiful watercolors! All of your watercolor work that you've shared on here has really been spectacular so far. Hope you're enjoying your trip!

Nancy Smith (Nick's mom)

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Some keyboard problems ... thus all the deletes. (sorry)

Great stuff on the graphics and the written descriptions ... enjoying it all ... keep 'em coming. :)

Salute !

Dad