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cbuchholz aka Chris Buchholz is a 27.01 year old boy, has been a member since June 29, 2006, has scored 6783 submissions, giving an average score of 2.42.

May 14 '08 by cbuchholz

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Sketches from Italy

(if you have me as a contact in Flickr, you can ignore this if you want)

I know I haven't been doing any T-shirts lately, but I have been busy! My aunt gave me this old record book which was written in by my great great grandma. It has entries in it dated 1876! It mostly contains names of people who are "dropped" or "deceased". I decided to deface it with drawings from my trip to Italy that I took last year.

I was really kicking myself for not drawing when I was actually there, but this is the next best thing. Actually, drawing from photos does have some advantages, but it's not even close to the real thing.

Saturday I'm leaving for Europe again, and this time, I'm drawing while I'm there!

Here are the sketches...

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Phiffer on May 14 '08 at 9:46am

Love it! I like how you opened and ended the book with the airplane window shots

olie! on May 14 '08 at 9:47am

. . . your talent is insane. . .
. . . I don't even have words. . .

SoldierofGondor on May 14 '08 at 9:47am

Wow. Sweet like usual, man.

squatterjohn on May 14 '08 at 9:49am

WOW, those are great. I loved being in Venice. Those pictures really take me back. Thanks.

littlem on May 14 '08 at 9:49am

i lub ~~you~~
your work!! ;p

Torakamikaze on May 14 '08 at 9:51am

wow. just.

wow.

shimala on May 14 '08 at 9:51am

I really like the two window pages

Ste7en on May 14 '08 at 9:53am

the Leonardo Da Vinci of our time.

Steve The Great on May 14 '08 at 9:53am

you need to get these printed and sell these...srsly

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 9:55am

thanks so much guys! I was trying to think of some simple way that I could begin and end it, and then the windows came to me! The first one looks a little funny because I just invented it from memory, but oh well.

andyg on May 14 '08 at 9:55am

Amazing work!

Steve The Great on May 14 '08 at 9:58am

it reminds me of the Dinotopia books, actually

littlem on May 14 '08 at 9:58am

where are you going on saturday?

sonmi on May 14 '08 at 9:59am

wow

iDanSimpson on May 14 '08 at 10:03am

!!!!!! those are so effing beautiful.

seeing these blogs of yours is better than seeing the new shirts come out!

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 10:12am

Thanks guys!

On Saturday I'm leaving for a 2 and a half week trip to Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic. I'm so excited! I'm especially excited to see prague, but everywhere I'm going looks cool! Hallstatt in Austria looks pretty amazing as well.

martiandrivein on May 14 '08 at 10:13am

Incredible!

littlem on May 14 '08 at 10:14am

oh fantastic! luckyduck!!

deboraborialis on May 14 '08 at 10:17am

That is amazing. What a fantastic idea, and very well done.

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 12:24pm

Thanks so much guys! It was really fun to do!

adam antium on May 14 '08 at 12:27pm

ah! you've been to cinque terre...i live nearby...

awesome sketches man!

t4sh4 on May 14 '08 at 12:29pm

wow those are awesome! ^5!

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 12:31pm

That's really cool Adam! Do you go hiking there often?

wullagaru on May 14 '08 at 12:32pm

yep .. i knew it this was goign to make me mad at myself for not drawing more

beautiful work chris

NomadSlim on May 14 '08 at 12:32pm

I don't know you, but that was beautiful. Thanks for making my day a little better.

Tess Fondie on May 14 '08 at 12:34pm

is that water color? my god, thats flippen amazing

bsweber on May 14 '08 at 12:35pm

umm wow?

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 12:35pm

Thanks Nomad! Plus now you know me! Now I'll check out your work so I know you...

Steve The Great on May 14 '08 at 12:36pm

no, you should def sell me one ofd these

pilihp on May 14 '08 at 12:36pm

awesome as always, chris. can't wait to see the new batch from your new trip.

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 12:37pm

It's called radiant concentrated watercolor. It acts similarly to watercolor, excpet it's in liquid form, and it's more saturated than watercolor. In fact, throughout most of this I've only used about six or seven different inks, and those ones are the more darker tones that PH martin makes. The bright ones can burn out your eyes.

i know very little about art on May 14 '08 at 12:37pm

Amazing...
You shall publish for sale

wotto on May 14 '08 at 12:38pm

beautiful

adam antium on May 14 '08 at 12:39pm

not in recent years, but my family used to rent a hous ein monterosso for a month since i was 6months til i was around 22.
i like cinque terre.

zipperking on May 14 '08 at 12:39pm

i'm speechless, one of the most beautiful books i've EVER seen.

Madshadow on May 14 '08 at 12:40pm

Those were great! I loved the Positano ones, and I was going to go to the Blue grotto as part of my Italian class trip, but it was too much money :(. These make me wish I could just go to Italy and draw. What did you use for the coloring (probably really obvious, but I don't want to assume.)

Madshadow on May 14 '08 at 12:41pm

Oh, scratch my question then, It was answered while i was typing the question :X. Anyway, the whole book is great!

tracerbullet on May 14 '08 at 12:43pm

*picks jaw up from the floor*

noodlezoop on May 14 '08 at 12:44pm

Wow, I cooed audibly in my cube when this opened. Lovely work.

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 12:45pm

Everybody says I should publish it and sell it, but I don't know. I just don't know how great it would be in printed book form. the pages are kind of wonky and crinkly and the whole thing is falling apart, so I don't know how you'd get it in a book, unless it was just pictures of it like this, and that seems pointless kind of. I just don't think publishers would be interested in something like this.

.MINUS. on May 14 '08 at 12:46pm

Wow that's really incredible.

Rambunkcious on May 14 '08 at 12:47pm

your water color skills are amazing

Roostersauce on May 14 '08 at 12:49pm

tracerbullet on May 14 '08 at 12:43pm
*picks jaw up from the floor*

Steve The Great on May 14 '08 at 12:52pm

I agree that your typical glossy-paged art book would not do this justice but I wonder if you couldn't get a more customized printing that tries to sort of replicate the original. If I were this good I might look into it at least.

anyways, even if you don't pursue it, I think you have incredible records of your memories and that is priceless.

I might spend a semester in cortona in a year or so if I don't fail out of school

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 1:03pm

Thanks Steve! Like you said, it just makes me happy to be able to take the time and reflect on the trip and I just enjoy drawing. Part of me would like to maybe publish it, but I guess a bigger part of me just wants to move on to the next drawing book.

I wish some business minded guy would just come along, publish it, get rich off of it, and then give me just enough money to afford paint. I went to buy some oil paints the other day, and some tubes were 38 dollars!! And that's with 40% off!!! I just left the store empty handed, instilled with a strong desire to do more charcoal drawings.

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 1:05pm

Oh, and that's excellent that you might be able to spend time in Cortona!

wullagaru on May 14 '08 at 1:07pm

chris are those light fast inks .. cause I know that a lot of dyes and inks fade after a while and was just wondering cause you do get great color with those

wullagaru on May 14 '08 at 1:09pm

alos if youre just starting out in oils get teh student grade first .. the colors arent quite as strong as pro grade but its not too bad a difference and teh price is much easer on teh wallet

cbuchholz on May 14 '08 at 1:17pm

You know what wulla, I just looked them up and it turns out that they aren't lightfast. I guess they are meant to be reproduced. Oh well, I'll try to keep it out of the sun. I don't have high hopes for the thing lasting long anyhow, none of the paper is archival, and some of it was water damaged right from the start.

I think I do need to get the student grade. That kind of bothers me though, because they aren't cheap either, and it feels stupid spending so much money for something of inferior quality.

wullagaru on May 14 '08 at 1:21pm

aha yeah thats why I never got into dyes even thoughh the colors are waaaay better

as for the student grade yeah I do know what you mean although just to give you the idea of how oils work and to see if you like them theyre great but once youve reached that decision id upgrade (its a pain I know Im still doing it)

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