I decided before I came on this trip that I would try to draw A LOT here, and also do something outside of portraits (my comfort zone). Here’s some of the things I’ve drawn, and there will be more to come!
The drawing on the top left is one of me holding a flower I picked in Ostia Antica. The thing that struck me most about it was the mixture of ruins and nature, and them coexisting in this beautiful way, so that was what I wanted to emphasize (a drawing of actual buildings in Ostia is in the works!)
I drew Medusa because that was the piece of art that really stood out to me in the capitoline hill museum (besides the frescos but those would be harder to capture in a smaller area). The way she is anguished and tortured instead of her usual menacing look really drew me in.
I chose to draw the archway in the Roman forum because the main thing that struck me was that so many structures remained intact from all those years ago, and this one was particularly beautiful.
