Saturday 2 June 2012

No iPad drawings yesterday as I spent the day without my iPad in London

Although I didn't have my iPad with me, I did find myself in the Apple Store in Covent Garden. How did that happen? Enjoyed iPad chat with enthusiastic assistant and left wishing I had the small, light keyboard that would go with my iPad so well.

The point of the visit to London though was to see Picasso's Vollard suite of etchings at the British Museum. Brilliant! His use of line is amazing and generally more fluent in etching than dry point. (not surprising when you compare the techniques.) it was interesting to see the prints shown next to classical sculpture, given the strong classical influence in this suite. Also on show were etchings by Rembrandt and Goya who had quite different styles.

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