Sketchbook

Scott often carries a sketchbook, a bottle of ink, and a crowquill pen on his travels. Here is a little portfolio of drawings from over the years; click any image to see a larger version.

  • Two sketches at the Orangerie in the Luxembourg Garden. The gardening crews were moving the palm trees inside for the winter on a crisp fall day in 1999 and as Scott was finishing the drawing above, a fork lift picked up his centerpiece and drove away with it! He returned to the same spot in April 2018 for the palm tree study below.

  • Scott and Christina have made several trips to Rome in recent years. Their favorite hotel is a short half-block from Piazza Navona which, early every morning, is blessedly tourist-free.

  • Eighteenth-century puppets at the Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna.

  • It’s bad table manners to draw during dinner but the restaurant La Tupina in Bordeaux, in 2004, was irresistible. The ancient kitchens are visible from the dining room — cooking is done in a wood-burning fireplace; a clockwork-mechanism connected to a system of gears, pulleys and drive shafts that rotates a spit. The food was spectacular.

  • Scott and Christina were lucky enough to stay in this wonderful country house hotel in Tremolat, France, in 2004.

  • The fish market in Venice, 2012.

  • Scott spent a day swimming and sketching at the famous Gellert Hotel in Budapest in November 2017.

  • Scott quietly sketched Simone Dinnerstein playing the Bach Goldberg Variations at a concert in Stratford in 2016.

  • The Lisps, performing during a show at the Public Theatre in New York, 2013.

  • An early morning drawing of Christina asleep in Room 406 at the James Hotel in New York, 2011. Below is a view of the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Grand Street from the 17th floor of the same hotel.

  • Scott sketched a boy across the aisle on a bus from Budapest to Trieste in 2017; and a couple of kids at Cafe Forth, a wonderful coffee shop in Winnipeg, in 2016.

  • Scott is part of a weekly life drawing group in Stratford; these drawings are all made with china marker on toned paper. The accordionist is Anna Atkinson, who visited Scott’s studio for a musical portrait session in 2014.

  • Virgil and Homer, the current studio cats. Alway good to have paper and pen at hand because you never know when they will sit still for a few minutes.