Beautiful Music (Street Performer With Violin, Italy) - 6"x 9" Pastel '

This is a quick study of one of the street musicians I encountered in Venice last summer, who really hammed it up for me (well, it cost me a Euro, but what are vacations for?). One other kind of street performer I loved (but neglected to take a picture of) were the many art students in Florence drawing with chalk in the streets...Botticelli, da Vinci...all the great Italian painters were represented!