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smrth:

This summer I flew to Italy to study journalistic drawing, the observational recording of visual truths. Stationed in Viterbo, a city which retains its narrow, crisscrossed medieval streets, I was essentially given the instruction to draw what I see and draw constantly.

This is a journey through that city, dotted at every nook and cranny with motorini, roaming through arch-lined paths cut by the cracks of cobbles and piercing light.

Fineliner and W&N watercolor on Arches hot press paper. Prints of these works can be found here.

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paintingbox:

Gaston La Touche (1854-1913), Pardon in Brittany, 1896, French. Oil on canvas. 100.5 × 110.5 cm

Gaston La Touche was born at Saint Cloud, near Paris. As a boy he took drawing lessons, which were discontinued when his family moved to Normandy during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. This was the extent of his formal training in art. When he returned to Paris he opened a studio and spent many evenings at the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes talking with other painters, such as Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, who were willing to share their knowledge and experience with him. La Touche asked Manet to take him on as a student, but Manet declined, saying he had nothing to teach him other than to paint what he saw.. (excerpt from JAMA)

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celialowenthal:

The “catalyst,” the sage had called him. Catalyst of what? Catalyst of their defeat, the King’s death, the Bastard-Prince’s curse?

He was but the messenger: what would his mother think of him now, should she know her son’s great destiny was but to deliver news to the dead? He refused to believe this is how it would end! 

If you follow my sketchblog you may recognize the thumbnail for this! A friend told me it had a Page of Wands tarot vibe, so I made up a melodramatic caption accordingly.