Enrico’s blog

Here’s a piece for the end papers (pages behind the cover) of the Venice Chronicles book. Fun to fill a page like this with silliness. I might play with the image and maybe invert it so to have a white line on a flat color page. The book is inching its way toward completion, working [...]

Most artists are a little obsessive about the tools they use. We love finding and trying new sketchbooks, new papers, new brushes and we absolutely love good pens. Brush pens, ball points, water brushes, fancy mechanical pencils and so on. We can spend hours seeking them out.
There’s one special pen in fact that I found [...]

Ivo is wonderfully rotound and lazy. The perfect cat to draw. Though I
wish he moved a little more, I am the one who has to circle around him
to get a new pose.

here’s a few more …

Ok, fifth installment of this work in progress thing! The little cat took some decision making. Went for a stripped tabby, the colors fit in that corner and I like the stripes. Then I started working into the building’s windows, adding some dark for contrast. Next was figuring out a treatment for the off white [...]

It was an overcast day in SF but no rain, of course. Thanks to all of you for coming out. We had roughly 60 crawlers around the Marina and Fort Mason today. The rest of the world saw around 52 different locations with avid sketchers roaming about! That’s really exciting, no doubt our biggest worldwide [...]

Ok, I continued adding details to little Marit and her parents on the Gondola. Then I started working on the upper left part of the illustration with the ironwork on the window and then the green door. For the stones in the pavement I switched to using the sumi brush, for the hell of it [...]

Here’s the 3rd installment of my work in progress illo. I started by adding a yellow ochre for the stucco on the building wall, then I realized that the steps where little me is sitting could use a little more detail and color. So I added some stones more true to Venice’s pavements (this is [...]

Here’s a few shots of the next couple steps I took in watercoloring this large piece for the Venice Chronicles. I am moving rather slowly on it, bit by bit every night, or almost. As we say in Italy: “Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano”. Which translates to the rather uninspiring: “Who goes [...]

Here’s a new cover for the Venice Chronicles I’ve just started watercoloring. I’ll try and post a step by step of the coloring process.

I’ve plugged Gipi’s work countless times, but once again I find myself having to point out how inspiring his latest blog entries are. These three new watercolors of housing around Rome just blew me away. Wow.