OUTREMONT: BERNARD AVENUE

OUTREMONT: ROCKLAND AVENUE

OUTREMONT: Town House

SKETCHCRAWL - Montreal.

Today, I joined a group of artists who meet to draw in the city every three months.   When thre date is settled, the place where the activity will take place is chosen and this happen in many cities in the world.   The next day, all the drawings are published on Internet.  

We met at the Bonsecours Market.   After some words of presentation of the project for the new members, each one left to sketc inside the market or outside  in spite of the cold.   Fortunately, the sun was shining.

 

Here are the two scenes I drew and watercoloured.   The first shows an aspect of the old port with the Clock Tower.    The second was done in the Garden of the Governor, behind the Ramezay Castle where pumpkins were exposed.

MUSICIANS AT THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF ARTS

Today, Culture Day, I went as usual each year to see a few members of the Canadian Watercolor Society at the Fine Arts Museum of Montreal.   Two musicians, a vilonist and a cellist, were playing marvelously.   I could not resist to sketch them...

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS - New-York

This week I spent two days of pure joy drawing in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York.  As I had received a very beautiful publicity about their collection of arms  and armours, I first set my small and light stool in this section.  

The following day, I revisited the hall of Greek sculptures and their Roman copies.   Always interesting.   I could not leave this Museum without admiring again Rodin’s Bourgeois de Calais…

An incursion on the first floor enabled me to go and pay a visit to Rembrandt and his admirors. 

Here are the results of these two days.

OTTAWA - A VISIT TO...

While visiting Ottawa we discovered two very interesting exhibitions.   The paintings of Van Gogh insisted about possible influences which might have had an impact on the artist.  For example the photographs, drawings and engravings of other artists were easily accessible  as well as Japanese scenes popular at the moment .   Van Gogh had acquired approximately 400 japanese prints at the time of his death. 

The Maya exhibition in the Museum of Civilization presented an outline of the history of this civilization which was destroyed by the Spanish conquest.   A loss for the humanity.

We also saw the illuminated show on the Parliament walls.   Like the one presented two years ago, this one insists on bilingualism specific to our country.   But we noted that not all the employees of the city are bilingual… 

The following drawings will always help me remember these pleasant moments in the Canadian capital.