Hommage to Onorato Carlandi

By way of exercise I copied a detail of a watercolour by Onorato Carlandi (Roma, 1848-1939). There is a beautiful exhibition about his watercolours in Palazzo Braschi (Piazza Navona), Rome. There are two rooms: one with older work made during his stay in England and the other room with work about Rome and the roman countryside. It runs until the 3th of july. If you are in Rome and you like watercolours I think this is a must-see! I went twice and bought the catalog.

Top of the tree

very quick watercolour sketch
Winsor & Newton on coloured watercolour paper

Study of trees

Another watercolour study of trees.
It was nice sitting in the shade of a tree on a sunday afternoon.
Very relaxing!
Winsor & Newton on rough Arches paper
I made some more and will be posting them in the next days!

Trees - impressions

Quick watercolour sketches on Arches rough paper.

Catino

Quick watercolour sketch of a little village in Sabina, close to Rome.
Just before it started to rain ...
Very smooth watercolour paper (don't remember the name)

Soratte (again)

Another quick sketch of the Soratte (mountain close to Rome)
Watercolour on Khadi paper)

Trees

two quick studies in a Daler Rowney sketchbook (24 x 19 cm).
Dip-pen and black ink (Winsor&Newton).
Rediscovered how much nicer it is to draw with a steel dip-pen
and how much more interesting lines you can do with them.
A little bit more complicated to carry the ink around but still worth doing.
Back to basics!!