On the school trip to France in the summer of 1963 I did not have a camera but I did buy a sketch book in Arles. In the recent posts about our French trip this Spring I remarked that it was somewhat nostalgic as it was there I made what I thought were some reasonable drawings for a 15 year old. I've selected a few drawings of the places we visited this year from my sketch book of that 1963 trip.
We started in Paris as you should, but I hadn't thought of sketching then. I do remember being laughed at by the French master, Mr. Preston for commenting that the Parisian cobbles still echoed to the sound of the revolutionary sans-culottes! Pretentious moi? Although four years later they certainly did.
I made some paintings from these drawings and sold them to teachers.
Alan Turner, our art teacher, in profile. And below a drawing of the bulls on the Camargue I persuaded him to make from the window of our moving coach.
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I am very impressed.
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