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Sketching in the City of Venice, Italy

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Venice Sketchbook Pages: Gondoliers

Artist's Sketchbook: Venice 7© Marion Boddy-Evans
I had great fun trying to get down on paper the positions of the gondoliers -- where they stood, how they positioned their feet, how they held the oar. Again, this was an exercise in observation, to supplement the reference photos I took, from all sorts of angles, to use as a check against my memory that I've the positioned correctly when I do a painting.

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