I have uploaded some photos from our wedding album to the gallery. To view them, click on the thumbnail.
The descriptions (available if you click on “display mode: detail”) are in Spanish, because I thought that my family and friends in Buenos Aires would appreciate a little explanation of what goes on in an English wedding.
Last Thursday, at SAG (my local art club) we had to do a painting after one of the modern masters. I chose Modigliani because I like the simplicity of his palette and the decorative qualities of his stylised nudes and portraits. While browsing magazines and books with reproductions of his works, I was impressed by the fact that, in his paintings, the models’ eyes were almost always empty.
The almond shaped, empty eyes, as I have read, could show the influence of African masks and sculptures, but could also mean he was trying to emotionally disengage himself from the sitter. A mystery to me, as I like his style so much, but the lack of ‘life’ in those empty eyes rather puts me off.
This self-portrait, based on a portrait of Modigliani’s young lover Jeanne Hébuterne, was done in acrylics. It features a long neck and thin nose, oval face, small mouth, … but certainly with ‘my’ hair, eyes and look.
Visit the links above for more about “Modigliani and His Models” exhibition, while I pick up my paintbox and rush to SAG!
I saw a lovely house to sketch in Veere, Holland and sat down on the grass and produced this.
Whilst sketching some tourists walked by, saw me drawing and actually went over to this house, peered in the windows, and tried to see what was so ‘special’ about it !!!!! Goodness knows what the lady who lived there thought about people looking in her windows at her!!
My next sketch was on the platform at Zaandam Station, waiting for the train to Amsterdam. We had 10 minutes so I sat on a bench and did this quick sketch of graffiti on a wall – not the usual holiday sketch – and I suppose I could be accused of copying someone else’s ‘artwork’?
Boulogne Sur Mer was a pleasant surprise. It was so clean, calm and full of old world charm. We paid homage to the statue of San Martin, El Libertador de America which was bathed in sunshine. This bronze statue, on a stone base, showed signs of having witnessed a battle in WWII. Robin pointed out some bullet holes in the bronze as well as shrapnel damage to parts of the figure. We managed to stand with our backs to the beach and sight through a bullet hole towards the old defensive pillboxes high up on the cliffs. Obviously San Martin was present at modern as well as historical battles! And shortly after seeing the statue we saw many marching bands go by as part of the national competition. A lovely experience.
The view from our hotel room was across a tree to the dome of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and this was too tempting not to sketch whilst waiting for Robin to have a shower. This was also the only day in the whole week that it rained. We were very lucky with the weather.
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