Art & Story Blog

In the afternoon, Jamie and I went on a tour of Shangri-La, the Hawaii home of tobacco heiress Doris Duke and now a museum of Islamic Art and Architecture. Photographs weren’t allowed inside the house, but they didn’t say anything about sketching, so I took my sketchbook along and scribbled away. I did several sketches of the interior rooms which were very quick and dirty. Here’s one example:

And then a couple more sketches from the yard. A quick one of the shores…

…and a fountain leading downstairs to the pool. I really wanted to take a dip. I think showing people this pool and not letting them swim in it is a sort of torture. Evil. Truly Evil. My perspective is screwed up on the rendering of the fountain, but c’est la vie.