Still in the City of Light, but took some detours

Hi Seattle from Paris!

It was wonderful to get to go to Italy, to Civita di Bagnoregio where Seattle's own NIAUSI has 4 beautiful apartments.  NIAUSI will also send sketchers Dave Boyd and Anita Lehmann to do projects there this summer--I wish them a wonderful and productive trip!  Civita is utterly amazing.  I will be teaching an architectural sketching workshop there again next year...in case anyone is interested for 2014...

Piazza San Donato in Civita di Bagnoregio, an amazing Italian hilltown.

One day in Rome, One Sketch in Rome in blazing heat and millions of tourists!

Then came the Urban Sketcher's Symposium in Barcelona!  It was a wonderful, wonderful experience--an incredible city, amazing instructors and unbelievably well-organized.  Kudos to all the sketchers who put in countless hours of volunteer time to pull it off.

I also got to see Gail Wong and her husband John there--she did beautiful sketches! Also briefly saw Jackie, didn't see Tina somehow...there were lots of people there.

I saw Gail and John on Sunday at the Sagrada Familia where Gail and I were sketching. See below.

Detail of sketch, interior of Basilica Gaudi's Sagrada Familia

Full sketch, Sagrada Familia interior.
Click on image to see it larger.

I hear the weather has been great in Seattle--I hope you all are enjoying the summer and doing lots of sketching.

For more of my sketches and paintings, as well as drawings from my Gabriel Prize project, please check out www.stephaniebower.blogspot.com.

A bientôt~~
Stephanie