Thursday, November 10, 2005

Rodin






The Musee Rodin is such a pleasant place to sketch in. Beautiful old building & gardens.

20 comments:

Uli Meyer said...

Rodin was and is THE sculptor! Effortlessness in any scale, a master with clay! A small museum in Karlsruhe, Germany, had a rough clay sculpt of Rodin portraying his version of Christ. After school I used to meander to that museum and stand in front of it, gob-smacked and in awe, while my mum was waiting at home with a cooked dinner. I never got a picture of it, but the image is imbedded in my head. Would love to go back there one day and steal it.

Matt Jones said...

Yeah, there's no more powerful, dynamic sculpture than Rodin's - Michelangelo's are beautiful & divine but Rodin is unmatched for sheer energy.

Thanksssss for the drawing bossssssss!!

Boris Hiestand said...

...naaaiice...

Uli Meyer said...

You're more than welcome!

hfm said...

Just because you know how to do it. Lovely.

hfm
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Elliot Cowan said...

mmmmm. yes indeed. mmmmm

Shawn Escott said...

Oh man! Awesome! Great artwork Matt! I like the middle one best.

yoborob said...

hi matt - did you actually see your girlfriend when you visited paris or did you fill every spare moment drawing . great stuff by the way . i saw rodin sculptures in my teens when there was a tour of his work. he does hands well no ?

Unknown said...

Musee Rodin is a fantastic place indeed, I loved going there when I was living in Paris, Musee d'Orsay is beautiful too!
Your sketches are superb Matt! love the light and colors you added on photoshop.

Unknown said...

Lovely...did you colour these up in photoshop after?
Cool work.

alberto mielgo said...

very nice sketches man.
I specially like the 3erd one.
The color is great to be hunged in my wall.

Unknown said...

WOW!! Beautiful drawings! I like Rodin a lot too ... very expressive and powerful.

Kmann said...

I love the quick tone pass over your pen work. Very nice studies.

the doodlers said...

Beautiful images of the sculptures Matt! Nice adding the simply blocked tonals. I think the bottom one is my favourite, but they are all great! Thanks for the inspiration. Did you use a brush with wash or a marker to do the original sketches?

Matt Jones said...

Hey, thanks for the respon se everyone. These drawings were made with cheap brush-pens then the colour added in Pshop.

limbolo said...

Vachement le tops Monsieur Matt.

MikeS said...

Very confident studies Matt! I have to admit, I thought the same thing that Mr. Roberts thought too. Though, I suppose sketching is somewhat like journaling; capturing what you are seeing visually rather than writing it.

Patrick Morgan said...

Great studies. I gotta do more of this type of thing.


cheers,
Patrick

chhuy-ing said...

Rhoo! So nice, I feel like I'm at the museum. It's decided, I'll go next we ;)

o s a k a said...

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