sketch and distraction

 


after all that, tony and i split off from the group to sketch the colusseum in the lovely weather. and i will talk more about it later, it's blizzarding snow slowly outside the studio window and i want to walk in the lovely paris snow... typed a lot today.

hmm so anyway, grabbed some pasta at an unremarkable little restaurant next to the hostel, unremarkable except the entranceway was doing a chinup onto the street - the steps started down without a pause - the streets keep jumping up here, all the ruins are significantly (20 feet or so) below grade. wierd wait staff kept correcting our placement of glasses etc... wierd... americans made themselves unescapable all over in rome, particularly at meals... waiter offered "special creme, healing" for my head, offered to put it on himself if i came by at noon the next day hehe... walked back to the ruins with the intention of sketching in the dark, it started raining just as we were about to set up though. the ruins were cool and less creepy then i might have thought during the day.