Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Roquebrune Village
I got my films back. Really drives home how absolutely incredible this place was. I have so many photos to put here. Will try to pace it out. Here are some shots of Roquebrune village itself : dating from the 10th century, built right into the mountainside. Let's start this with a shot of the model village (wonderful, rickety cardboard contraption) to give you a sense of the whole. Then some 'detail shots' which I had the hardest time in my life editing down. This entire place is a wonderland.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tenement
A birthday gift for Lion, in case he finds himself missing the buildings of Alphabet City. Now on display next to our wooden half-a-brain. It's hard to get any sense of scale from these photos I realise, but that's a realistically sized brain, so the building is about 18" x 6", painted on wood. It's funny working with acrylics on a non-absorbent surface after so much time mucking about with inks and wet paper and so on. I like the way the paint resists being applied. You get all these stops and starts in the line. Or I do at least.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
A Sikh Temple's Century
I'm a day late in posting this, due to the prolonged madness of daily life. But yesterday I had a new drawing in the NYT Op-Ed section. It was a super-fast turnaround, a few hours to do sketches and then another couple of hours to whip up the final. I love this kind of job - have to drop all plans for the day and entirely focus on the article and the drawing. It's rad.
This one was for an article about a Sikh-American woman's memories of her community and her temple, in the aftermath of the appalling Wisconsin murders. You can read the article here. I recommend it.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Cathedral cradle
Another drawing for the NYT Townies section - the role a Cathedral plays in the life of a family over the years. The article is here.
