Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris

In Paris final month I did some sketching at one particular of my beloved places, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens.

This is a minimal video preview of me sketching. The full 10-minute online video sharing the approach of developing these two sketches is a free of charge reward training course accessible to my atelier Associates on the Programs webpage.

The statues on the fountain are by Auguste Ottin, and represent the huge cyclops Polyphemus, in bronze, discovering the sea-nymph Acis with her human lover, Galatea, in white marble. In the Greek fantasy, jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, so Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.

The fountain and grotto have been developed for Marie de’ Medici’s Still left Bank palace, developed in the 1620’s. In 1811 the fountain was restored and moved to its present locale, and the statues have been included at that time.

I initially found out the fountain on my higher university excursion to France, in 1988. I sat and sketched the sculptures on that journey as perfectly, in a long-shed sketchbook sadly. I check out the fountain each individual time I return to Paris given that then.

This is a different watercolor sketch I did final summer at my kitchen area table:

Drawing Materials
Blackwing drawing pencil
Blackwing lengthy point sharpener
General’s white chalk pencil
Kneaded eraser
Stillman & Birn Nova Trio Series Toned Softcover Sketchbook

Watercolor Elements
Arches watercolor block
Watercolor palette in brass by TirraLyra

Watercolor tin pans by TirraLyra
Watercolor crimson sable journey brushes by Rosemary Brushes
Collapsible tin water cup by Fulangpa
Guache: Zinc white, Winsor & Newton
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube colors:
Uncooked Umber
Indian Yellow
Quinacridone Rose
Cerulean Blue
Chromium Green Oxide