Moleskine Sketchbook
Portrait Drawings
Studies in the pub off Jermyn Street...
Girls putting up with their friends...
& chap pensive in a pub, possibly ditto...
Some Portraits
Julia at the Klomp, Nice
D & J reading on the tube
George snoozing, Ventimiglia; January 2005
Parisiennes at the Bistrot des Augustins, Paris...
including the frecklesome girl with the long neck and pink coat...
Margarita Zarubin, the face of the greatest Brahms playing; at the International Competition for Outstanding Amateur Pianists, Paris, January 2005.
Sculpture by Giovanni Pisano
I took a day to see the Pisano-family pulpits in Pistoia and Pisa, and the Donatellos in Prato and Pisa. Below are sketches from what for me is the greatest of the Pisano pulpits, that by Giovanni in Sant'Andrea in Pistoia. It was a means of making a record but now I take more than that pleasure in drawing from sculpture; well, at least they don't move!
From the panel of the Massacre of the Innocents:
From the panel of the Crucifixion:
and the Disciples' shame & horror:
and an Apostle:
Heads at the Musée du Moyen Age at the Hôtel Cluny, Paris;
three statues and a baritone...
Pierre
Bourhis,
baritone of the mediaeval music ensemble Ultréia!