A sketch of patrons in a café in Versailles. Dry felt tip marker on paper, approximately 6" by 9" original size, done February, 1972.
Another sketch of patrons in a café in Versailles. Dry felt tip marker on paper, 6" by 6" original size, done February, 1972.
Sketch of a bar in a café in Versailles. Dry marker on paper, approximately 6" by 9", done February, 1972. Looking over all of my sketches for this time period, I have noticed that my style of drawing varies a lot. Sometimes the linework is confident and at other times, as in this drawing and subsequent drawings I will post, it is more feathery and tentative, especially when drawing people. For the most part though, I have always considered myself to be a deliberative sketcher.
Although this sketch is spare in detail, it exudes the feeling of France for me. A storefront along a street in the neighborhood where I used to live. 6" by 9" original size, felt tip marker and dry marker on paper, done January, 1972.
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." So wrote Marianne Moore in her 1935 poem, "No Swan So Fine." A sketch of a still fountain in the gardens of the palace of Versailles. Felt tip marker on tracing paper, approximately 6' by 9" original size, done October, 1971.
A pencil sketch on paper of a sculptural keystone medallion at a window arch on the façade of the Petites Écuries, Versailles. 6" by 8" original size of drawing, done in January, 1972.
A concept sketch for an art exhibition in the Petites Écuries (former royal stables) across from the Palace of Versailles. The concept involved suspended cubes in the main hall, open at the top and the bottom, mirrored on the outside, with art objects mounted on the inside; and the art viewed from within the cubes. Felt tip marker on tracing paper, approximately 12" by 12" original size, done in January, 1972. The stables were the location of Unité Pédagogique No. 3, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the architecture school I attended in France.
