Tuscany - Sketchbook Art

 

 

I have been fortunate to have spent time sketching while traveling through Italy. Tuscany is an amazing place--  rolling, lush hills, vineyards everywhere and charming, ancient towns.  It was difficult to do sightseeing when all I wanted to do was stop in every square, have a glass of wine and draw. In the small towns throughout Tuscany, very few people spoke English, but art is a universal language.  Most of the time waiters brought me free food and refilled my glass. Sometimes I gave the owner of a cafe the sketch I was working on. Always, the painting was accepted with great fanfare and gratitude. Or at least that's what I thought was going on.  My Italian is so bad, they could have been telling me about the next day's menu!