2015-05-03 Athens - Acropolis - Erechteion
The Acropolis...one of the wold's greatest and most influential architectural creations!
The caryatids - statues serving as columns - are replicas. Five of the original ones are housed in the brand new and amazing Acropolis Museum. The sixth one was removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and is now in the British Museum in London.
One of the guards saw me sketching and warned it was forbidden to use watercolour, apparently because of the danger of polluting the stones!@? I managed to convince her that watercolour is quite harmless.
Pigmentliner and watercolour on notebook 14 x 27
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid
2015-05-03 Athens - Acropolis - Erechteion
The Acropolis...one of the wold's greatest and most influential architectural creations!
The caryatids - statues serving as columns - are replicas. Five of the original ones are housed in the brand new and amazing Acropolis Museum. The sixth one was removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and is now in the British Museum in London.
One of the guards saw me sketching and warned it was forbidden to use watercolour, apparently because of the danger of polluting the stones!@? I managed to convince her that watercolour is quite harmless.
Pigmentliner and watercolour on notebook 14 x 27
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid