During the Spring Break 2014, while I was in my first year of my MFA at SVA, My husband and I celebrated our anniversary in Florence, where we had eloped 5 years earlier. Because we couldn’t share it with them the first time, we invited our mothers to join us. We stayed in the same hotel in Florence, Hotel Il Bargellino, and also visited Rome and Bologna.
On the previous trip, I had purchased a beautiful handmade watercolor sketchbook from Abacus in Florence, but had not the confidence to ever use it. This time, I vowed to fill it completely with drawings from the trip. Like in any sketchbook, some entries are stronger than others; the nature of this particular sketchbook has led me to present it here in its entirety.
