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The Sketchbook · from the picture desk

One drawing, one place

Elio Marchetti, the magazine's illustrations director, draws the covers and the illustrations and checks every photograph before it runs. Now and then he writes about one drawing: what is in it, what was left out, and the place behind it.

Elio Marchetti, Illustrations Director

Elio runs Amorielli's picture desk. He draws the magazine's illustrations and cover art, checks every photograph before it runs, and keeps the register of who made each image and under what licence. Now and then he writes The Sketchbook, a short column about one drawing and the place behind it. A good picture, in his view, should make you want to book the flight.

Architectural drawing of the yellow stone walls and ramparts of Fort Christiansvaern overlooking the Christiansted harbour. Latest · 15 October 2026 The Yellow Fort at Christiansted Elio Marchetti mixes five colours to draw the Danish masonry and calm harbour water of St. Croix. Read the column
  1. A multi-tiered volcanic stone fountain rises above stepping stones and orange koi in the calm pool of a Balinese water palace. The picture desk · 1 October 2026 · Vol. 2 · No. 10 Drawing the Stone Pools of East Bali Why our picture desk chose volcanic stone and royal water gardens rather than hotel renders for an East Bali resort opening.
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