How did architecture lead to drawing?
During my master’s, I did an internship surveying farmhouses. I was by myself in the middle of nowhere in the French countryside, drawing buildings to scale. And then what? While practicing architecture in Paris, I also did scale drawings of historic buildings for the French government. Things took a more personal turn after I came to L.A. My family and I moved several times in the first few years, and I did a rendering of each house, so my two sons could remember them. When we lived in the Hollywood Hills, I made a drawing of the house for our Christmas card. Which artists have most influenced you? For me, Canaletto, Vuillard, Bonnard, and Hockney have had a tremendous impact. Even with the architectural-drawing course I’m teaching at the UCLA Extension, one of the foundations is painting. Everybody meets first at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, where I explain painting techniques from the Renaissance through impressionism. It’s a hands-on class in art history. What medium do you
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