This year we have chosen together the colour of the summer sketchbook thank to your vates on my social accounts. Anche the winner is… ORANGE!
Cover experience
Here we go with thecover of the seaside sketchbook 3×5 cm. As usual a selfportrait opens the “parade” of landscapes and live scenes from Cesenatico and Cervia. For real time updates watch my facebook and Instagram stories.
Memories
Other years, other seasons, the same place. Watch here the pages from the previous sketchbooks of Cesenatico and Cervia (Italy)
From 20th October to 6th November 21th October at 4 pm official opening ceremony. Thursday and Friday 4 – 8 pm Saturday and sunday 10 am – 1pm and 4 – 8 pm Free entry
What is “Matite in viaggio”?
Matite in viaggio means “travelling pencils” in Italian. The cultural association “Matite in viaggio” aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Article 3 of the Association statute says “Visiting countries and places, meeting people and communities, understanding ancient and contemporary civilizations are the conditions under which “travel sketchbooks” can express the will and dream to identify with the freedom and dignity of all men”.
The project
The sketchbook on show this year has been created in autumn of 2021 in Moscow region (Russia). It is dedicated to birches in autumn transparent and warmed by the last fall sun.
Birch is one of the most common trees in Europe and north America . You will find it everywhere from USA to Italy and from Ukraine to Russia and Japan.
Work in progress from landscape sketches to the preparation of the sketchbook for shipping to Venice.
The show
Pictures from opening ceremony and from exhibition rooms of Matite in viaggio 2022.
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It’s summer and we are in Piedmont in Italy. We are far from the seaside. I am here to tell you Olimpic mountains and Bardonecchia beyond ski that is worth visiting. I will use the language of forms and colours to tell you the green mountains, blue sky, fresh air and lingt walls of houses made of typical stone.
Houses of Barfdonecchiaapples of Bardonecchiathe mountainsWork in progress
Bardonecchia beyond ski. Sketchbook made with you
The sketchbook of Bardonecchia summer has been made with you throught the social posts live videos and messages. I used A4 sketchbook to cut it in smaller pages on sketches are completed
ancient mirrormini colours for mini sketchbookdesign objectsLavanderSome pages of the sketchbook before the cut
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Art collective “LIVE NATURE” in Pianezza (Italy) will be open from 19 to 27 march in Villa Casalegno, Via al Borgo 2, Pianezza (Italy). Opening party 19th March at 4 pm at Villa Casalegno, Via al Borgo 2, Pianezza (Italy).
Open hous: 19th, 20th, 26th and 27th March 10-12 am; 4-6 pm.
You can see on this collective a new series of the landscapes and illustrations about Russian woods near Moscow made with mixed media drawing on the cardboard 15×10 cm. The Moscow fall sketchbook 2021 completes the series. The sketchbook is open invitin a visitor to scroll the immages made with ink on acrylic paint.
Work in progress on artworks to show on “LIVE NATURE” collective in villa Casalegno (Italy)
Framing of the Russian sketchbookWay to the showEntrance to Villa Casalegno in Pianezza (Italy)
Artworks on show on art collective “LIVE NATURE” in Pianezza (Italy)
Artworks framed on showRussian autumn sketchbook 2021Sketches of russian woods 15×10 cmBirch and sunrise, drawing 15×10 cmTrees of russian woods, drawing 15×10 cmBirch amd sunset, drawing 15×10 cmThistle ans sunset, drawing 15×10 cmJasmine, drawing 15×10 cmThistle and sunrise, drawing 15×10 cmperegrene falcon, drawing 15×10 cmowl, drawing 15×10 cmJay, drawing 15×10 cm
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What do you imagine when one says “Moscow”? Probably you think about Kremlin, Red Square or St. Basil’s Cathedral… OK, that are the most famous places full of tourists. I will show you another Moscow beyond the Kremlin.
Maybe it sounds strange, but most of the Muscovites does not see Kremlin from the window. An average Moscow landscape is something like this:
Moscow real urban sketchMoscova urbanChurch and skyscapersFrom my window. Another Moscow beyond the Kremlin. Acrylic and ink
The ancient churches and cathedrals standing among the skyscrapers, active and dismantled factories and the high tension cables all around.
Dacha
Dacha is the name for a country house. It is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs. The noun “dacha”, coming from verb “davat” (to give), originally referred to land allotted by the tsar to his nobles; and indeed the dacha in Soviet times is similar to the allotment in some Western countries, normally free, to citizens by the local government for gardening or growing vegetables for personal consumption. Since some time avery my journey to Russia I visit “dacha” of my family. In autumn the country landscapes are coloured by the red and yellow leaves of the trees.
Autumn leavesSunriseSunsetCountry landscapes. Acrylic and ink
Still-lifes
Usually you will see big and small plats with fruit or vegetables and more in the kitchens of muscovites. These place tell a lot about people who live in there. Here are some still-lifes drawn in different places..
Moscow City
It is one of the most recent and ambitious parts of Moscow. MIBC (Moscow International Business Center), also known as Moscow-City is situated about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) west of Red Square. Here you will find the headquarters of the banks, web companies like Yandex, Mail.ru, Kaspersky and the luxury apartments and restaurants. But you will unlikely find average muscovites in this major financial centre in Europe.
Moscow City. Business district. Acrylic and ink
Selfy time
When you come to Moscow there is no way to avoid the places for postcards and films. Muscovites unlikely come here often because there are a lot of tourists. You are absolutely justified to take some photos with Red Square, Kremlin, University of Moscow and other monuments and places of interest.
CremlinBehind the Red SquareCthedralMoscow famous views. Acrylic and ink
Ready to take off
The trip takes almost whole day and consists in waiting most of the time. The time passed standing in ine to check-in, passport control, in boarding zone, in flight for me is an occasion to sketch a chaotic life of the airport and aircraft. By the way, if you want to save time and money make the COVID test directly in the airport. It takes just 1 hour. Here are some pictures of Malpensa (Italy) and Sheremetievo (Russia) airoports:
Wainting for the boardingBoarding zoneIn the aircraftMoscow Airport Sheremetievo. Acrylic and ink
It’s time to take off and switch off the devices… see you next trip!
p.s. How I did it.
The story of Moscow fall sketchbook 2021 started in April of the same year when my father passed away. Among his belongings I found an almost blanc agenda of 1995. So I decided to use that notebook to tell Moscow as it seen by a muscovite. The pages are covered with transparent acrylic paint to give a right space to the original page format on the background and the sketch in front line.
Acrylic backgroundCover experienceLandscape in progressWork in progressmoments of Moscow fall sketchbook
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It’s not my first time in Tuscany (Italy), that is why I decided to dedicate Tuscany sketchbook 2021 to the places and atmospheres of this region seen and sketched from the different point of view.
This summer we have chosen together the places to sketch…
Thanks to streaming we sketched toghether in real-time night and day …
We saw Florence, Piazza del Duomo and Ponte vecchio from the different point of view in the Cascine park near Arno river.
We also walked among the people of Florence visiting Cascina Market, on of the longest of the Europe.
They come from Vinci, like Leonardo. These mini handmade sketchbooks 3×3 cm purchased in Leonardo’s native town are waiting for the new trips to tell. Click here and suggest the destination!
Tuscany sketchbook 2021 is only piece only. Click here and write me to have it.
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