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Mont St. Michel
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$20.00
*All of my Travel Sketches may be re-painted by commission. If you see one you like that is sold or you'd prefer in different colors, contact me!*
The bus stopped after driving through the most beautiful tidal sandbanks - at times it felt like we were driving on the sea. The architecture students piled out and I scrambled up the hill though the thick of magical medieval shop buildings now housing tourist stalls, up the stone way, to the pinnacle, the abbey at Mont St. Michel. I’d seen the silhouette as we approached by road, those soaring buttresses and all points heavenward. It was awesome to stand in the nave, looking toward the tall windows of the choir, and feel absolutely tiny. I felt overwhelmed and tried to make a little sketch. I was becoming desperate to draw in a new way that conveyed my feeling of the space.
I made the ink drawing/collage as an undergraduate architecture student on travel study abroad with the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech in 1998. I used watercolor to interpret and enliven the drawing during pandemic quarantine, Spring 2020.
Watercolor Paper 140gsm
8” x 10”
Frame not included.
I'm excited to bring nearly 100 of my architectural Travel Sketches, created in mostly Italy, but also Switzerland, France, Spain, Greece, Hungary and Czech Republic from 1998 - 2012, into a Collection: lines drawn on site now illuminated by watercolor. Together, they reveal my personal evolution in architectural travel sketching and offer a piece of travel art that can remind you of your own memories in place, invite you into these spaces with your own experiential vision and, hopefully, offer hope that these piazzas and streets, now quieter than ever, endure, beautifully, and will again fill our senses with life.
Thanks for helping to DO GOOD and GIVE BACK: 25% of the sale of each piece will be donated to Lifting Hands International* (LHI), a 501(c)(3) public charity that specializes in international and domestic relief and aid for refugees of war-torn countries of origin.
I'll also donate 5% of the sale of this piece to the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech for student assistance/scholarship for travel study abroad.