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THE SKETCHBOOKS

36: IN A PIG’S EYE 2018-2023
33: BIKERS IN EPHESUS 2016-2020
32: IN THE KINGDOM OF URARTU Spring 2016
31: ANCIENT CITIES, DEPARTING FRIENDS 2014-2015

The purpose of this website is to share my work with you. Webmeister Robert Spoden and I have  busted our— Um, worked very hard! —to bring this to you our friends.

I’ve been drawing Turkey since I fell in love with it 23 years ago. I started drawing the place in the spring of 1999 and have never stopped.You can go anywhere with a sketchbook and a drafting pen. So most of my huge body of Turkish drawings is in these little books. You wouldn’t believe how big these drawings look when opened up and framed.

Thanks to decades spent creating art digitally, I know how to scan and make the art look like the original in the sketchbook— minus the distracting center line. It’s a ton of work, and all for you. We present pictures of Turkey and its neighbors, warts and all: each drawing a portrait of the moment in time when it was drawn. All of them make up a multifaceted portrait of Turkey. We hope you enjoy it.
–Trici

35: MEGALITH 2020-2022

This gallery features all images from Trici Venola's Sketchbook #28, Hot Crosses
28: HOT CROSSES 2012-2013
26: PAPAZOĞLU HAN 2011
27: ABOUT FACE 2011-2012
25: ACTUAL SIZE 2010
22: SEA PALACE 2008
21a: HASANKEYF 2007
19:CORNUCOPIA 2005-2007
17: KÜÇÜK AYASOFYA 2004
15: AMAZING FACE 2004
12: HARBINGER 2003
10: DEATH VALLEY & RAMAZAN 2001
7: ASHES OF ROSES 2000
3a: WEDDING TANGO SHORT 1999
23: CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES 2008-2009
21b: TOMB WITH A VIEW 2007
20:DISPLACED 2007
18: SHIPWRECKED 2004-2005
16: AFTER DIYARBAKIR 2004
14: RETURN TO ISTANBUL 2004
11: NEW YORK MET 2002
8: WOMAN WAILING 2000
6: ROUGH PASSAGE 2000
3b: KAPADOKYA 1999