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10 studies · about 20 hours · 3 weeks at 20 min a day

Towers and forts

Corot's architecture gathered, then Forrest's Castle and Tolbooth: the building as a mass in light.
  1. 1
    The Tower of Henry VIII

    Master study · Corot

    The Tower of Henry VIII

    A building in a scribble

    1h
  2. 2
    Tower at the Lake's Horizon (Tour á L'Horizon d'un Lac)

    Master study · Corot

    Tower at the Lake's Horizon

    Big tree, far tower, scratched glass

    1.5h
  3. 3
    The Lonely Tower

    Master study · Corot

    The Lonely Tower

    A tower as one mass among trees, in crayon

    2h
  4. 4
    The Bell Tower of St. Nicolas-lez-Arras

    Master study · Corot

    The Bell Tower of St. Nicolas-lez-Arras

    A church spire as a thin vertical among trees

    1.5h
  5. 5
    The Isolated Fort

    Master study · Corot

    The Isolated Fort

    Wind, a tree, a fort on the horizon

    2h
  6. 6
    Souvenir of the Fortifications of Douai

    Master study · Corot

    Souvenir of the Fortifications of Douai

    A great tree over dark water, walls behind

    2.5h
  7. 7
    River with a Distant Tower

    Master study · Corot

    River with a Distant Tower

    Five planes to a tower

    1.5h
  8. 8
    A Village Street: Dardagny

    Master study · Corot

    A Village Street: Dardagny

    Corot draws a building in sunlight

    2.5h
  9. 9
    Edinburgh Castle from West Princes Street Gardens, with the Ross Fountain

    Master study · Forrest

    Edinburgh Castle from West Princes Street Gardens

    A castle as a silhouette, with bare branches for a frame

    2h
  10. 10
    Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh

    Master study · Forrest

    Canongate Tolbooth

    A steeple, a clock, a forestair, a street

    3.5h

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studies done on this path

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Silverpoint. A personal atelier. Artworks are public domain or CC0, courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, edinphoto.org.uk and William Shannon Fine Art.

Mass before line. Line before detail.

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