With the Civita Institute's Astra Zarina fellowship, I'll be spending 2 months in the teeny Etruscan/Roman/Medieval/Renaissance (and it pretty much stops there) hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio ITALY, literally following the footsteps of other Seattle sketchers like Anita Lehmann and Dave Boyd who were there last summer. The project: to create an illustrated walking guide to the town, as tons of tourists show up and quickly walk from one end to the other, never knowing that they are in a really amazing, historic place.
I'll also be teaching the second annual DRAW CIVITA-- 5 day sketching workshop in July (and yes, there will be a DRAW CIVITA 2015)...
http://www.stephaniebower.com/DRAW_CIVITA_2014Info.pdf as well as joining the Urban Sketchers in Rome for sketchcrawls. It will be great to see the Good Bones 2 sketchers Ben and Francesca who work for Rick Steves and are based in Rome--they are really good, brand new sketchers! The plan is to also visit a few of the gardens that predate those I studied in France last year, the Villa Lante and Villa d'Este...lots of perspective there...
Then in late August, I'll board a plane again to join the Urban Sketchers community at the symposium in Brazil to teach a workshop called "180 Degrees", which will include lots of how-to information on basic perspective. I love these wide angle views, as they really put you in the space! And if Paraty is anything like Barcelona last year, it will be amazing--so very, very well organized, an incredibly fun opportunity for any and all sketchers.
Look for a few posts to the Seattle Urban Sketchers blog, but if you are interested in following the daily posts, go to:
blog: www.stephaniebower.blogspot.com
flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/83075812@N07/
or through Google+ (and I have no idea how to post a link to that site...)
It appears that lightening can strike the same place twice, I am so very, very grateful for these utterly amazing opportunities and adventures. My gosh, it honestly seems too good to be true.
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| 180 degree view of Civita's Piazza in front of the Chiesa San Donato 2013 |
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| 180 degree view of the Interior of Civita's Chiesa San Donato 2013 |
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| Walking through this portal into Civita is like entering a time machine, as it throws you back many hundreds of years...and a spell comes over you. It is such an amazing ancient place, perched like an island high above the valley below. |
Stephanie-Hesse are great! Looking forward to your posts from Italy. I will be going there summer 2015 and haven't decided yet which cities to visit so would love to see your illustrated walking guide. Will it be done by then? What an exciting project!
ReplyDeleteHi Jackie, thanks so much for your message! Civita is an extraordinary place, rather off the beaten path north of Rome and south of Orvieto. Yes, the walking guide should be done by next year for sure! It will be great to really learn about the place and create this guide, I hope you will get to go there next year! The Civita Institute facilities are just beautiful, and anyone can stay there...maybe add it to your list of possibilities! Grazie, ciao!
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