It's been a long hot summer here on the Cote d'Azur & I've clocked up many hours on the beach. It's a great place to draw people -especially Nice because it's so popular & there's an endless array of diverse body shapes, ages, poses, activities etc.
I'll start to post some pages from my sketchbooks.
This is the Palais de la Mediterranée. A huge casino & hotel on the Promenade-it has interesting art deco architecture & relief sculptures.
The tattooed man really did have all the cliché images all over his body- a sexy girl, butterfly, desert island, sailing ship on his back, arms covered in twisting roses & a big dragon on his leg. He was a tall, middle-aged Italian guy. I imagined he could be mafiosi or an ex-con. When he came back from the shower he saw my drawings & grunted as he dripped water on me & walked back to his spot!
The people at the top of the page above were silly tourists throwing pebbles at jelly-fish or meduse as they're called in French. Trying to sink them will not make them go away!
In 1983 we had to excavate a hole in the pebbles to acomodate my wife's belly when she was pregnant with my daughter and needed to sun tan her back. Check if it stills there.
ReplyDeleteHa! It's still there! I use to accomodate my enormous, croissant stuffed belly!
ReplyDeleteI really miss the Golden Cape beach in Croatia. Seeing these just reminds of that place and how I wish I were back there, though I don't remember seeing an excavator anywhere along the shores.
ReplyDeleteplease don't write about long hot summers, when you know people from England read your blog
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ReplyDeleteI like the various women placing their towels on the sand, very nicely captured. There seems to be a seaman stain in the bottom right corner of the middle page.
ReplyDeleteIn the bottom page there is a picture of Patricia sunbathing.
ReplyDeleteAt least you had a summer...
ReplyDeletegreat pages by the way ;)
Smook-Crookie wears a Golden Cape when goes out.The excavator was used to dig Oscar's wife out of the pebbles!
ReplyDeleteJeroen&JP-I was amused during the summer to see the news headline on Yahoo: 'UK basks in 2nd straight day of sunshine'-down here it makes the news if we have 2 straight days of rain!
M@-well spotted!
Oscar-i think i know the sketch u mean...
I CAN"T BELIEVE THAT YOU STILL IN SUMMER THERE! I THAT CASE I HATE THIS POST> WE'vE BEEN IN CHRISTMAS TIME SINCE JUNE!
ReplyDeleteBeautifull sketches
It's still very summery here actually.
ReplyDeleteWe are still using the air con.
Lovely drawings as always Matthew.
Thanks for the comment on my blog, Matt. I showed these drawings to Gary Dunn today; we were admiring your simplicity of line and your poses. Have you seen Dufy's electrique mural in Paris? I am dying to see it. It's clear to me that Dufy did influence the 1950s graphic designs; surely Mary Blair must have been a fan, as well as Ludwig Bemelmans. Say hello to Bibo for me.
ReplyDeleteexcellent work...top notch hips!
ReplyDeleteGetting better and better...........
ReplyDeletecoucou matt, yes it's me, in the other room, haha!
ReplyDeletethank you!
nice blog you too, are you drawing when you sleep?
Hi Matt - Finally getting a chance to check our your great blog! Love your sketches - they're fantastic and many of the descriptions are hysterical. Thanks so much for stopping by my page regularly. I'll do the same for you. Best, Lainey
ReplyDeleteI love all these neat little doodles you do of people !! Super !!!
ReplyDeletePulled off some nice ass shots at the beach!!! Loving the economy of line.
ReplyDeleteThnx for the comments everyone-more beach sketches coming soon. . .
ReplyDeletevery great sketches!!!
ReplyDeleteI like so much the synthesis, you catch in fantastic way the single line that make the difference!
compliment!
Grazie Ben!
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