Final Project Process

The process of my final project for Travel Portfolio - 8 vignettes of memories from Venice.

Paris

Sketches from Paris, including gestures of people, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the clock at Musee d'Orsay, my favorite Degas ballerina painting, sculptures at the Louvre, stuffed animals at the museum of Natural History and the outside of the Pompidou center.

People and Place

These are my 2 final drawings for our People & Place project. They are from sketches I did in Venice of street musicians, Carnival mask stores, and feeding pigeons in St. Mark's square.

Gordes

Our last Travel field trip was to another hillside town called Gordes. A little bigger than Lacoste (they have a grocery store), Gordes has gorgeous views of the valley below. We spent the whole 2 hours painting the same landscape again and again, it was too beautiful to capture but I had to keep trying!

Isle Sur de la Sorgue

The day of our trip to Isle Sur de la Sorgue was bitter cold and windy. The town was pretty, but no people were outside and it was far too cold to draw. There was a beautiful water wheel that was covered in ice, I'll post photos of that in a later post. Everyone quickly headed to a cafe, where we frightened all the French people in the cafe by drawing them.

Cafe Sketches from Aix-en-Provence

We took a field trip for Treasures of Provence to Aix. When we arrived at the art museum we discovered that it didn't open for 2 hours, so we spent some time in a little cafe drawing.
The art museum was awesome when it eventually opened, we saw an incredible exhibit by Philippe Favier, a contemporary artist I had never heard of before. After that we wandered around the city, which is beautiful, and found a great art store. We finished the afternoon with gelato on the main street - yum!