Monday, November 26, 2012

Drawing in France



French Dreamin'

While putting together material for the upcoming blog post about the French Workshop (24-30 June 2013) I was looking through some drawings from the area where we'll be.

When I make sketchbook drawings such as these, I often treat different parts of the drawing in different ways. You'll see that I often just indicate the trees while describing the buildings quite accurately.

Hope you enjoy these. They are, unfortunately, not scanned from the drawings themselves, but from previous low-quality facsimiles----with all the loss of nuance that suggests. Sorry!

















5 comments:

  1. Lovely compositions! These are the sort of subjects that are so close to my heart. The drawings themselves give me also an echo of JD Harding and of Whistler lithos - but that's maybe just a reflection of my current interests!? Its strange how atttracted I am by house/farms, etc. I wonder why ""barns"" are so evocative? Thanks a lot. Jon

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  2. Great stuff. You are an inspiration to draw, draw, draw.

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  3. These are so beautiful! There is magic in every one of them, all of them places I would like to rest for a while.

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  4. Funny, I was thinking Whistler drawings and etchings too...these are exsquisit!

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