Paris Sketchbook: Jason Brooks

Paris Sketchbook: Jason Brooks

Jason Brooks

Language: English

Pages: 160

ISBN: 1780671059

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book from leading international fashion illustrator Jason Brooks. Although he is best known for his beautiful fashion imagery, which has regularly graced the pages of Vogue and Elle magazines, travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire.
This book is a whimsical take on Paris, part guide book, part illustrated journal, it will appeal to both travelers and fashionistas. Sumptuous production with different stocks and inks will make this a must for anyone who loves fashion illustration and beautiful books.

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Jeanloup Sieff photograph – my favourite table. Opposite: Bistro still life in blue. 64 Chez Julien Chez Camille Nila at Le Train Bleu Le Select Le Sancerre Café Le Nemours David, Francesca, Avril and Tony at Le Grand Colbert 66 Café Costes Café de Flore Ma Bourgogne Pharamond Paris’s cafés, restaurants and bistros are great places to sit and draw. These are some of my favourites. Le Pick-Clops 67 Paris is the birthplace of many of the world’s greatest and most enduring fashion

Parisian life. 106 107 Above: Meert, 16 Rue Elzévir, a charming confiserie-patisserie. Below: Deyrolle, 46 Rue du Bac is like a compact natural history museum. 108 109 Paris has long attracted artists to live, study and find inspiration, from Picasso to Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec to Hockney. It is also home to some of the finest and most important art collections in the world. The Louvre alone houses tens of thousands of art treasures, spanning centuries in its cavernous galleries, wings

cathedral of Notre-Dame lies at the geographic centre of the city, with its twin Gothic towers and ornate west façade. On a dark night in October it’s easy to imagine Victor Hugo’s Quasimodo surveying the scene below. Opposite: The July Column in the Place de la Bastille commemorates the events of the July 1830 revolution. The figure on top of the column is the ‘Génie de la Liberté’ or ‘Spirit of Freedom’. 12 13 A rainy afternoon on the Rue des Archives. 14 15 The Eiffel Tower has gone

from avant-garde statement to beloved and ubiquitous symbol of Paris. I now have quite a collection of old postcards of the tower, some of which are shown on this page. My favourite is the last one on the right: I love how the clothing of the people in the foreground suggests time has changed everything but the tower itself. 19 The Palais Garnier opera house stands symmetrically like a giant jewelled music box facing down the long Avenue de l’Opéra. The opera house was opened in 1875 and was

from avant-garde statement to beloved and ubiquitous symbol of Paris. I now have quite a collection of old postcards of the tower, some of which are shown on this page. My favourite is the last one on the right: I love how the clothing of the people in the foreground suggests time has changed everything but the tower itself. 19 The Palais Garnier opera house stands symmetrically like a giant jewelled music box facing down the long Avenue de l’Opéra. The opera house was opened in 1875 and was

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