Seen on Roman Streets

 

I started street drawing (also known as "urban sketching") as soon as I got to Rome. One of the first and most obvious places to start was the famous "Spanish Steps," a spectacular stone stairway at the Spanish Embassy. People from all the world came to see this, and they sat on stone benches around the fountain at the bottom of the stairway. In those days you could see "Hare Krishna" devotees in every major city, Rome included. There's one now, dressed in his cotton rumpled pajamas, passing out Hare Krishna literature. Just another figure in the sculptural environment of the Eternal City.

Pencil on sketchbook page, 7 1/2" x 9", 1975.