Another weekend, another European capital! My early childhood was spent in Scotland & I've always wanted to return. Edinburgh is a gorgeous city with stunning architecture. Regrettably I didn't get time to draw the famous castle but I'll go back.
At the Modern Art Museum I was struck by the paintings of Anne Redpath. Terrific colours & almost naive forms. There was a pertinent quote from her about exaggerating architecture.
Along The Royal Mile.
We visited the National Gallery of Scotland to see 'Turner and Italy'. He was hugely influenced by Italian landscape & art, making four trips to the country in his lifetime, resulting in dozens of paintings & countless sketches. On one trip he filled 23 sketchbooks! Several were on view. They were packed with exquiste little studies of landscape & architecture. You can browse Turner's sketchbooks in the Tate's online collection.
Finally some airport people & the ubiquitous bagpipe player.
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Hey Matt. Great post as usual. Nice info on Anne Redpath. Looks like travel is good on the old sketchbook. Great work.
I really like your line work!! Makes me want to get in my sketch book a lot more!!
Wow - what a productive weekend you had! Great work.
And the Turner sketchbooks sound great. Thanks: off to look now...
All neat stuff as per usual Matt !!!
love your drawings!
I love these atmospheres... great job!
Thanks very much for the encouragement folks!
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hey!
i stumbled upon your blog while googling edinburgh and ended up checking out most of your archives. i especially love your city sketches and your houses look exactly the way i wish i could draw them myself:)
that's pretty much all i wanted to say...
cheers,
anja
amajnari(at)gmail.com
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