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sketchbook 1

This is my sketchbook (moleskin) from my summer in Paris and Rome.

I will post one 2 page spread each day over the next 40 days or so.

Paris summer

Circo Massimo

Roma

Circo Massimo in Rome. Wide open space where a vast stadium like structure once stood.

Au revoir Paris

Digital painting

Comptoir de L'Arc

Serveur a La Grand Corona

Les Femmes Parc Monceau

Parc Moncean

Parc Monceau

Catacomb mass

We went into the catacombs at St Sulpice and came upon a private
religious ceremony in Rumanian. Chanting, candle lit,
priest in a gold robe and darkness. All very mysterious and mystical.

Inside St. Sulpice

cafe portrait

Beth

Back

Park

Looking over the floor plan at the Louvre

Trocadero sketching

Man at Louvre

Trocadero sky

Paris metro

Thing about the metro is people sit close together. And those existential handles to

let yourself off the train, the sound and the hand movement...Paul Belmondo style.

You'd think people would be more social on the metro but its like anywhere else.

"You're just a picture in my world...you know the place where I am the center.

You don't expect me to talk do you? Just enjoy the sights." I really do.

Jean Giraudoux self portrait

Trocadero

Louvre sketch # 27b-801

Champagne

Cafe couple

Cafe

Cafe

Cafe life

Figure

Louvre sketch # 27b-800 figurinesitoas

sketch page

Trocadero bicyclist

Bus passenger

raft of the Medusa

I always sketch this painting each time I visit the Louvre.

This is the freeest and yet most precise sketch to date. And fast to appear

from my moving hand. Sometimes that hand moves on its own volition

without my advice...gladly I notice it has its own intellgence.

Beth

couple at Trocadero

Metro trio

Rembrandt at Louvre

Seine moment

Cafe

Viewing Mona

Its no secret how so many people line up to photograph Mona Lisa.

She's getting quite a big head but all signs lead us to believe she will be ok

for yet another technological change in recording devices.

Perhaps 3-d picture taking is just around the corner. I bet she won't mind that either.