On the way home
After Florence, we took a really looooooooong ferry ride (I don’t think we’ll ever take an overnight ferry ride again) to Barcelona – our last stop on our trip. Barcelona is an amazing city. If you like architecture, you will LOVE it there. Didn’t do too much sketching while there since we were running from one Gaudi building to another and hanging out with a few of our friends who are from Barcelona.

These are a couple of the sketches I did while either at the airport or on the plane – I can’t remember which. Who knows what I was thinking at this point. Apparently something about chin rolls…

Okay, okay, so this one’s not from Europe. It’s Bethesda fountain in Central Park in NYC. But it is the last sketch in my sketchbook from that trip, and I thought it fit right in… I did this one shortly after our return.
In completely unrelated news, I checked out the Editorial/Book show at the Society of Illustrators in NY today. Pretty great show if you have the chance to see it. Congratulations to my good friends Robert Mackenzie and Daisuke Tsutsumi who both had pieces in the show! Way to go, guys!
Hi Michael,
Great study!!!
The artist, Emma Stebbins creator of the Bethesda Fountain who’s lover and famous Shakespearean actress Charlotte Cushman who in the mid 1800′s fell ill to breast cancer during the unveiling of Bethesda Fountain. A bitter sweet triumph. Theology tells us that angels and arch angels are male yet her angel is referred to as female with rather large breast similar to Cushman’s. Now 2008, we gather at the base of this fountain in a united effort to find a cure for breast cancer and to raise the level of awareness. There is something to be said about a message carried through ripples in a fountain transcending time.
*R
Comment by R.Dress — February 26, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Thank you, Robert!
Comment by admin — February 27, 2008 @ 7:39 am