6 April 2015
I called upon the spirit of Rodin to guide me through drawing David by Michelangelo.
No watercolors allowed. Sketchbook in plain sight.
10:30am “Galleria dell’Accademia. Appointment with David. I never saw it the first time to Florence because I saw the fakery and thought it was the original.
No watercolors, so took my limited time with a gesture drawing a la Rodin!
Very rusty, got better as I moved from left to right. Big hands, like Rodin’s hands.”
“Fiction is a lie.
Good fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Stephen King
Right versus left:
“5 minute impression. Over an hour during lunch.
Old style [mine] versus new try all watercolor impression.
Shaky at best but such fun!
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower;Cattedrale de Santa Maria del Flore.
Architects Cambio and dome by Brunelleschi.”
“This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it!” Ian Thomas
Moleskin 8×11 watercolor journal, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, De Artramentis Document and Super5 ink, and Daniel Smith, Holbien and QoR watercolors.
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Great sketches of David and the Cathedral!!! I’m enjoying your trip. You mentioned surgery of FB. Hope it goes well.
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Thank you. I had a lot of fun with David! Say i to me on FB so I know you — for some reason I am not putting two and two together. Maybe it is the drugs! Kidney stones. Painful but not life threatening . . .
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Ahhh David. You just had to *sketch* him. Again and again 😊. The fake was pretty amazing in that piazza!!
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The fake fooled me the first time around. Of course, I was absolutely NOT willing to rad a travel guide. This trip, however, Mik is looking at what he wants to see . . .
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I know! When I saw it out in the open, I couldn’t believe they would so carelessly expose him to weather and vandalism!! Then I learned sbout the real David.
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Love the sketch! And those quotes too… excellent work. Wish I was there too. 🙂
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Thanks Pauline!
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