First Sunday of the month is free admission, which means long lines (unless you know alternative entrances) and lots of people (unless you know alternative halls)
Luckily I read the text in parentheses, so entrance was fast and the hall we were in wasn't crowded.
(They say 80% of the crowd in the Louvre is around the Mona-Lisa, Venus de Milo etc., so the rest is quite spacious)
This was the first time I took the time, in between challenging my group members, to draw as well. (mainly since I promised the boy to draw a statue of Achiles fighting a snake (or something...)
Following are two different attempts to deal with a sad-postured statue.
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| just straight lines |
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| just dark spots |
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| Front |
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| Back |
* this is a pencils that is an aquarells, which allows drawing, and than smearing it with the finger and some spit. exciting stuff! :)
And I just found a page of other drawing of this one (in case you don't understand what you see...) : here
And a general view, with the horses of Marley (Statues taken from Marley-le-Roi, and put in the Louvre when they created this new section of it)
The statue shows a slave trying to tame a horse, (if you want, you can see it here)
And a small story about the roof - it is a relatively new hall, and the glass roof is designed to pass a constant amount of light, so it stores the light if it is too much and emits it when it gets darker.
As this was told to me by the boy, I am sure every word is true!
Till nextime!
me.
Love it!!! And I loved seeing everyone's drawings. I so wish I could come draw with you.
ReplyDeleteI've been away from blogs for weeks and now I am just getting back. I was so happy to click on this post and see your lines and marks -- like seeing your face! Happy New Year!
Thx Lisa, such a joy to get a three-exclamation-marks response!!! (you know meeting you was part of what brought the idea of the group, right?)
DeleteHave a great year yourself as well, and I'm already looking forward to see you on your next round!
Funny enough, when I look at the above sketches I realize what a difference the page size makes (perhaps I'll try a session with a tiny format, and see what happens...)
I've always wanted to draw/paint something on a huge sheet, maybe wall-size or something equally enormous. I still haven't done it yet!
DeleteOne fantasy I still have is drawing on stage with live loud music as part of the performance. a huge sheet and wide brushes. white, black and red.
DeleteYes I found you on the Lisa's blog. I think but I am not quite sure that we met wonderful Lisa during her journey. The same person but in two different places in the world but sounds like very similar story. I met Lisa at the drawing group in Edinburgh last summer.I had a look at your drawing group webpage and honestly I think it was brilliant idea and lots of good energy is coming from that project. Huge well done to you and I hope everything goes well. And I have just started to listen R.Wyatt. First song which appeared was a cover of 'what a wonderful world' . I could not find better tune for the busy day which I had today. So thank you very much for recommendation. Huge greetings.
ReplyDeleteYes Aga! You made Edinburgh so much lovelier for me, and Dov made Paris more of an adventure. :)
DeleteI totally loved it! Great idea to do it "b'hevruta" :) You teach and learn and communicate.
ReplyDeleteIs it a permanent bunch?
-Igg
Hey Igg!
DeleteDepends on your definition of permenant, Anyone can join the group, and anyone in the group can come to meeting, but the number of places for a meeting is limited. so far I had four meetings, there are always newcomers, and tehre are always regulars (except for the first meeting :)
To make it short, you are invited to join nextime You're here.
C ya!