Moleskine Sketchbook III

The Moleskine Sketchbooks...

III

As with the other notebooks, all the pictures that follow are done 'on the move'; most un-named portraits are of people I spot in a bar or on a train. Volume III begins fiddling about with Japanese brush pens that have a decent - and so far, safe - resevoir of ink and which take really well to the Moleskine paper... The entirety of the rest of the notebook has continued with these pens.

Sketchbook Number 3 - Tall Format

First Doodles and one-line Inventions after J.S.Bach...
Studies for the Tile Mural for Robert at Lagrasse...
Down South-West Way... Céret, Prades, Lagrasse...
A Sortie with George in the Alps
London to France, from the Alehouse to Macon...
Cézanne in Aix and Myself in Cucuron...
A Day in Pisa, bars & stubble
London again...
...for the Rehearsal Orchestra
...and the Westminster Arms

Sketchbook No.3:

19.vi.VI to ...

First Doodles with new Japanese ink-reservoir brush-pens...

and some one-line exercises after J.S.Bach...

pp.0/1/2/3

pp.4/5/6/7

pp.12/13/16/17

pp.20/21

pp.14/15:

The bar at Bennett's, waiting for Mairi...

Studies for the Tile Mural at Lagrasse...

This section (still under construction) will document the creation of a large garden mural in tiles, July 2006...

p.32

p.33

p.36

Down South-West Way...

Céret, Prades, Lagrasse...

pp.34/35:

Céret, at a café in the great tall-tree short avenue;

— did Braque & Picasso & Dufy take an apéro here away from the easal?

pp.38/39:

Prades, at a café opposite the church;

— did Casals take an apéro here away from rehearsal?

pp.65 & 66/67: The bridges of Lagrasse

p.69:

Waiting for Robert at Nîmes

A Sortie with George in the Alps

Duranus - Isola - Colle Lombarda (2350m) - Santuario di S.Anna - Vinadio - Colle della Maddelena - Barcelonnette [Les Buissons/ Jausiers] - Col d'Allos (2240m) - Thorame-Haute - Annot - Duranus

pp.72/73: Isola

pp.75 & 76/77:

These and the following drawings are all of the valley of S.Anna, descending between the Col de la Lombarde and Pratolungo, by Vinadio.

pp.78/79 & 81

p.91:

Planning tall canvases of the valley of S.Anna

pp.93 & 94/95

p.83:

Luncheon at Vinadio...

pp.96/97:

Towards Annot, steep downward vista as we go uphill from Thorame-Haute...

London to France, from the Alehouse to Macon...

pp.88/89

Waiting for Robert at The Lamb & Flag...

pp.98/99:

Rooftops in Macon, from the Hôtel de l'Europe & de l'Angleterre

Cézanne in Aix and Myself in Cucuron...

On the occasion of a visit to the Luberon, visits to the exhibition Cézanne en Provence at the Musée Granet in Aix, and an afternoon in Cucuron under the trees...

pp.104/105: "Il nous regarde...";

The bust of Cézanne & the jardin des fumeurs at the Musée Granet...

pp.108/109:

"Elle nous regarde..." tandis que je la regarde;

flowing locks of the official girl between the rooms at the exhibition...

pp.114/115:

"L'animation de l'animatrice...": A guide guides in grimaces past the paintings...

pp.116/117:

The Granet gardens again from the exhibition window...

pp.118/119:

Aix: "Les repoussoirs du Cours Mirabeau...";

or: "Across the street and into the Deux Garçons..."

pp.120/121:

Cucuron: No parking but a glass of wine in the plane tree avenue by the étang...

pp.122/123:

The great plane tree at Cucuron...

A Day in Pisa, lunch in Ventimiglia

22/23.ix.VI

pp.126/127 & 134/135:

Café Centro (piazza Garibaldi) & Lo Sfizio (Borgo Stretto)...

pp.150/151:

Looking back up to the market, by the Loggia di Banchi...

pp.136/147: Museo dell'Opera dell'Duomo, Pisa:

quick studies of various thoughts in Donatello's bronze bust of San Rosssore (1427) — the worry, the calm; the care, the abrogation; and the greatest stubble in Western art...

NB: in Moleskine II, some studies of figures by Pisano; click here.

Ventimiglia: pondering the sea again on the way home...

p.153: