While visiting England in May of 2013, I had a chance to visit the National Gallery. I went with a sketchbook and Dewent watersoluble ink pencils. Instead of trying to look at every painting, I spent my time sketching a few and seeing more. I used a water brush occasionally and no one seemed to mind.
Seurat's "Bathers at Asnieres" is very calm with lots of blue and touches of orange that glow, I located most of the oranges in my sketch.
Degas' "Portrait of Elena Carafa" looks much younger than my sketch, less jowls.
A fragment of a fragment of Manet's painting inspired by Goya's "The Third of May 1808"
Only when I started drawing did I notice the bridge and small boat in Turner's train painting. I read later that there's a rabbit in this painting, but I didn't see it.
Uccello's horses look like they could have galloped in from a Disney cartoon.
I stood to the side so I could better see the skull in Holbein's "The Ambassadors."
The right side of Cezanne's bathers attracted my attention, especially the figure on the far right. Why was she so thin?
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