I have just uploaded my first post to the Volterra-Detroit Foundation Blog. You can find it here.
There is quite a big overlap with my last two posts here, but also a slightly different take on the topic and a couple of new images.
While I’m at it I may as well share my latest work with Autodesk sketchbook.
This one was done on my phone and for some reason reminds me of the work of Modigliani. Difficult to say why, probably the stylisation and use of black. He came from Tuscany, was famously wild (even for an artist of the period) and specialised in female nudes. But this deals with layers receding into the distance: the hills in the distance echoing the tumbling rhythm of tiled roofs. Chimneys in Volterra seem to indicate wood stoves, a slightly different role from brick chimney breasts that feature so prominently in the traditional housing forms of Northern Europe.
The tiled roofs are based on a two par system: flat pan with half round cappings. Both…