"I have felt myself become more a man of... the Mediterranean, queen of forms under the play of light; I am dominated by the imperatives of harmony, beauty, plasticity." Towards a New Architecture - Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)


After an intense six week, accelerated course in Greece studying studio Interior Design 3, Painting, and Greek History i have arrived back in the US of A and am able to reflect on the trip. To look at the work that i have brought back... all of my sketches, paintings, photos, and observations in general... it just doesn't even come close to the experience i felt there. In the next couple of weeks i hope to post some things from my sketch book. Some still in progress, some pictures... bits and pieces (as Victor Hugos says about the Greek Wall) that come together to form a structure... each ones shape determining the next.

Study before we left for Greece. Its a banana in a jar on its side... i know it isn't very readable...


Study before we left for Greece.


Rusty and I practicing. This is my study of a green paper bag. (Again before I left for Greece)

Water color study of the outside of our Hotel in Samos, Greece (Fito Bay Hotel)


Sketch of Monastery of St. John in Patmose, Greece.

This could possibly look like a very vulgar drawing... but actually... this is a study of a wall fresco of the House of Ladies. Kinda a crazy story... but i actually meet the doc. that delivered me while in this museum... while drawing... a lady came up to me and wanted to know where our group was from... and i told her i was actually from a small town Champaign, IL... turns out their group was an Alumi group from the U of I. And her brother still lived in Champaign... so i told him who i was and what do you know... he knew my mom and me very well! He delivered me! Small world!
But back to the House of the Ladies... really amazing. I love the fluid simple lines that create their frescos. So many styles take after these.


This is a water color study done in Fira, Santorini. Look it up, it is amazing! Ill try to post some pictures taken there. It is basically an island that is like a cliff, with a city on the very top of it. Some friends and i hiked the volcano there. Truly breathtaking. I will post pictures... i have to. Anyway, this study was done while having an deep conversation with one of my friends there. Conversation took over the study i think but ill always look at this study and think of her. I have an emotional attachment to it.

These are visual notes taken at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece.
http://www.cycladic-m.gr/




Right across from our hotel (The Parthenon) was the Temple of Zeus. These are my sketches. My photo of the Acropolis is taken from the Temple of Zeus.

Is everyone familiar with the Lions Gate... yup this is it! In Mycenae we visited this and the tomb of Agamemnon. This sketch of the Lions Gate is from the back side.


This is a sketch of a statue in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.