Sunset at the Spanish Steps

One evening we walked up to the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome to enjoy the view and take photos as the sun was setting.  The colors were beautiful, and I absolutely loved the silhouettes of the the umbrella pine trees against the sky.

Colosseum - a watercolor sketch from Rome

I loved our tour of the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill.  I had never walked through actual historical ruins like that before, and it was impressive to actually get to explore places in person that I had read about in books and watched in films.  Slightly surreal, too, to be walking down a street, following a map, and suddenly you're looking up and saying, "Oh look, there's the Colosseum!"  

Piazza Navona - a watercolor from Rome

My husband and I went to Italy in August for our honeymoon, which was fantastic! We travelled through Rome, Siena, Florence, and Venice, eating lots of great food, taking tons of photos, and even doing some drawing and painting in our sketchbooks along the way. I'll be sharing a couple of my sketchbook pages in a few upcoming posts, and I'm hoping to do more artwork based on some of the photos that I took.

This was from a nice plaza called Piazza Navona. A great place to enjoy a drink and a snack while drawing and people watching.  The building colors look great when the sun hits them.

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