As a result of putting together a Blurb photo album from last year’s trip (photos and my sketches) I was thinking tonight about my other photo albums.

Also dreaming about going back to Rome again and what I would draw…and so is the wee bear!

In the “OLD DAYS” – before I was sketching on location and before I discovered Blurb, I would spend a year after any big trip putting together a photo album of the places I visited in my brief holidays. I would research every building I went to and then draw the plan, elevation, and details, summarising my readings into notation on the drawings. I traced a lot of these drawings! I would put these books together in InDesign, then print them on my Epson printer at home on double-sided matte paper and get them bound at a local thesis book binder. (Now Blurb does that last bit for me!)

This particular album from a week in Italy is my greatest achievement… 

And took me a year to complete, but I got SOOOOOO much out of it. There are lots of quotes from books and copies of drawings from architecture books… so I stress that this is a PRIVATE photo album/scrapbook and not fit for publication.

I’ve included below some pages below that contain only drawings of mine.

So, if you think my sketching is somewhat over the top… It is a lot more relaxing than putting this together!?! I don’t know how I found the time…

One day I would like to do something with this….. as I think there is a real need for a more dynamic and contemporary approach to classical architecture appreciation (especially in Australia)… when I put this together, I NEVER thought that I would be one day sketching on location – I thought that the best I could do was take lots and lots of photos and have fun with Photoshop when I got home!