Rome in watercolor

Where I am with watercolor is -- where I am. Picking up watercolor again after a gap of 6 years, it turns out, is not like riding a bicycle. My eye outruns my hand, my critical faculty sits hard on both. I keep at it. Most of these are small, about 7x10". The View from Aventine Hill is bigger, about 12x24". I like working on-site, and then finishing at home. Another blog post soon with more work.

Il Colosseo, first Sunday of January. Nice day.

Teatro Marcello on the left, on the right the remains

it seems of the Temple of Apollo Sosiano.

Synagogue behind.

Foro Boario. Temple of Hercules Victor, but

could also be a temple to Vesta, because of round shape

On the right, Temple of Portunus.

This info is from Let's Go Rome

Church of San Bernado, ink and watercolor.

The church faces Via XX Settembre, a street of

Baroque wonders. Finished 1598.

House between Tiber River and Piazza Sonnino in Trastevere

A mish-mash reuse of ancient remnants, and charming for that.

View from Aventine Hill. 

Left, St. Peter's. Right, Monument of Vittorio Emmanuele II. Center left, Synagogue.

The face of Aventine Hill has been stabilized with brick retaining walls.

Separate blog posting on this overlook compared with JMW Turner's image of it.

by Nancy