The Saint Jost bell tower in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.
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Prague’s most famous landmark, the evocative Saint Charles Bridge hums with tourists in the afternoon. In the morning it is quietly beautiful.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
Cesky Krumlov is a magical town of twisting streets, nestled in a river bend. The castle, churches, and residential neighborhoods occupy the hill about town. This is the view is the from the residential neighborhood above the river. The “street” down into town is actually a stairway.
This painting has sold, but you can still purchase a fine art print.
Cesky Krumlov sits in a bend of Vltava River in the Czech Republic. It is a walkers town. And if you walk, you eventually cross the Vltava. All the bridges are charming and walkable.
These are a few sketches from my travel diary:
The little figures in the boxes show the pedestrian signals in and around Karlsplatz which have been redone in celebration of gay marriage.
The Upper Belveder Palace has a wonderful collection of Klimt. But the room that draws the most smiles in the one that contains Felix Xavier Messerschmidt’s expressive sculptured faces.
Playing folk music on accordions in Vienna, is a street performers’ staple.
Prague’s Jewish Museum consists of three synagogues, and and cemetary with explanatory display cases. My sketch shows an outside window and a detail from a case.
The beer garden in old town Munich includes many green grocers, cheese mongers and other non beer vendors (the beer and sausage in quite fine too).
The Municipal Building is an Art Nouveau wonder inside and out.
Salzburg from the landing in front of the Fortress.
The bridge is beautiful whether you are on it or looking at it from another bridge. It is also crowded during the day. This sketch is from the early morning when I had it almost to myself.
Pragues homeboy David Cerney, has absurdist sculpture all over town. Most of it is bronze. The little bit from the Swedish Embassy is anomatronic, forever running.
Tabor, Czech Republic, from the old gate tower.
Impressionists view of the Saint Charles Bridge at night.
This painting has sold, but you may still purchase a fine art print.