I went to the new galleries at the Ashmolean Museum today. I always enjoy drawing at the Ashmolean but found it more inspiring to draw from the sculpture than the painting. New galleries are great and transform the place. Very crowded and some parts still not fully labelled. The painting is a mixed bag but all the more fun for that.
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I worked on this for sometime. It's quite small really - acrylic on watercolour paper - about 13x10ins.
I made some initial working drawings in my A6 sketchbook, because the composition was complicated and not really planned but felt towards intuitively, combining memories and images from the place where stayed. The painting is a gift to a friend.
This is the first page of the A6 sketchbook I took to Paris over half term, with my 6th form students. We visited a wide range of galleries and museums including Musée d'Orsay, Pompidou Centre, Malliol Museum, Musée Zadkine , Musée Bourdelle , Rodin Museum and the art fair FIAC.
We were only there 5 days so I tried to get 7 or 8 drawings done a day! I have posted a selection of the more interesting pages in my new gallery.
