With my mom visiting this past weekend, I got the chance to play tourist and enjoy some of the best things New York City has to offer. In addition to visiting various foodie spots around town, we also attended several great plays ( Every Brilliant Thing at the Barrow Street Theater is a must-see in my book!), and went to both the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA to see art exhibits. While the Henri Matisse: Cut Outs exhibit at MOMA is ending tomorrow, the Madame Cézanne exhibit at the Met will still be up for another month…and it is well worth seeing!
Included in the Madame Cézanne exhibit are a few of Cézanne’s sketch books. Cézanne not only sketched daily, but was frugal, often using the same page in his sketch book for various different subjects. I found the sketches in the exhibit to be particularly lovely, not to mention that they caused a light bulb of sorts to go off in my head. Because my music performance schedule has become increasingly busy, there are periods of time when I can’t get to my drafting table as frequently as I’d like. Carrying around a small sketch book and a pencil in my purse is easy enough…and the challenge of sketching something quickly each day appeals to me.
I was fortunate to actually have a chunk of time in which to sketch yesterday. My concert loafers were the subject as I sat sketching and waiting for the the orchestra’s turn to play during the New York City Ballet’s matinee:
Today’s sketch was done in a restaurant in the few minutes that my mom left the table to use the restroom. My subject was a young woman seated at a table nearby:
Next Monday I hope to post a few more of my week’s sketches. Hope you’ll come along for the ride!
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