METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART --- NEW-YORK

During a recent voyage to New York Ciiy, I had the occasion to go and draw at the  Metropolitan Museum of Art.  I drew only statues in the European sculptures hall.   As I was planning to come back to the museum the following day, I wanted to draw the Greek and Roman statues on this second visit.  But… I have not been able to come back to the Museum.

These were moments of intense pleasure.   But when I was starting to draw Hugolino,  one of the supervisors ordered me to bring the chair back to its place.  I was somewhat annoyed!   I had to  finish the drawing standing.   Fortunately all the others were done while sitting comfortably.  As usual, I added watercolour to the drawings in the evening.    They are all done with pen and permanent ink.   The last two drawings were done in a previous visit.

QUEBEC CITY-2012

A few days spent in the City of Quebec enabled me to quickly draw a tiny part of the million beautiful things of this historical city.   The weather was very hot and I sought the shade to work at ease.  It is to be noticed that the color was usually put in the evening.   It means that the buildings take a slightly different aspect as well because of my memory as by my inclination to put such or such color not always in conformity with reality…

This time, there is no text on the history of the various buildings and places.   It should simply be remembered that the famous doors which give access to the old city had to be rebuild but not in the French style castles bur rather in the spirit of the Scottish castles and that the wall was saved by the English of Quebec because the municipality wanted to destroy them.