Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour)

postcard collective #4

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:29:17 -0700

This one happened extremely quickly. I am not sure what I was thinking.

postcard collective #3

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:16:55 -0700

I guess this is all the art I have time for right now. . . This is a self-portrait done entirely in depressive thoughts. :P

postcard collective #2

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:35:11 -0800

The second postcard of the year. I thought I would have fun with this one before starting classes again.

rainy Fribourg (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:43:45 -0800

Tiny painting of the Cathedral of St.-Nicholas.

Cathédrale, partie deux (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:42:59 -0800

The most interesting thing about this painting is the space in front vs. the space beyond, so I edited it to reflect that. (Cathédrale de Lausanne.)

Cathédrale (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:13:49 -0800

The Lausanne Cathedral. Only took seven months to finish. (Edited 11/28/2012.)

garden digression (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:40:20 -0700

Catching a bit of shade during a Roman summer.

deep shadows above (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:39:26 -0700

Sitting in the corner of the Pantheon portico in Rome.

catching up: Rome, part 3

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:37:47 -0700

This was the day I spent exploring the leftover bits of Empire. I think few things have impressed me so much as the Pantheon. Overall conclusion: the ancient Romans may have been bloody bastards, but laws did they know how to turn a beautiful arch or bit of stone drapery.

catching up: Rome, part 2

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:19:30 -0700

This was the day I went to see the Vatican. Unfortunately once I got inside the tour moved too quickly to really have much time to sketch, but I still caught a few details.

brief reprieve (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:19:28 -0700

Blessedly cold fountain in Rome.

catching up: Rome, part 1

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:11:41 -0700

In late August I took a five-day vacation in Rome, staying in women's hostel near the river. The food was gloriously cheap compared to Switzerland, but luckily the fountains were just as drinkable because it was tremendously hot. The light was the sort of fantastic gold glow that I associate with all Mediterranean cities, and I spent most of my time wandering about sketching monuments and buildings, so I didn't end up seeing as much as I might have otherwise, but I feel like what I did see I really appreciated. All things considered, I had a fantastic time, and I had much cause to bless my little Moleskin notebook of watercolor paper. These are from the second day I was there and the third morning (the first day was spent entirely looking for my hostel, and then sleeping.) The sketch above is Trevii Fountain (OF COURSE.)

catching up. . . Basel

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:14:44 -0700

It's been a distressingly long time since I've posted, BUT I've not been entirely inactive! I started graduate school in a program dealing with energy and architecture about a month ago, so I have been very busy. Probably more importantly to my Society6 account, about a month before that I spilled water on my computer, taking it out of commission for about a month and limiting my ability to upload things. (Since then it has resumed functioning with the help of an external keyboard.) In any case, I have a few posts worth of sketches and paintings from weekend trips to share with you built up. Enjoy! This is from a trip to Basel to visit the Kunstmuseum, which had an exhibit of early Renoir paintings on.

Ceiling o' joy (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:16:53 -0700

Chapel of the Macchabées, attached to the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre in Geneva. It was used as a storage space during John Calvin's time preaching in the church and only restored to its full flaming Gothic glory in the 1900s.

Marseille Cathedral Sketch (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:29:34 -0700

9 AM in the morning on a bench outside the fence.

Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille sketch (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:27:11 -0700

Sitting on the stair going up to the church at 7 PM.

Marseille in postcards

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:19:44 -0700

Last weekend I went to Marseille -- actually to visit a cousin of mine while she was visiting her husband's family, but she couldn't get away, so I ended up just visiting Marseille for. . . Marseille. It was fun! I got quite sunburned while painting! These are all postcard-sized sketches (many thanks to the friend who gave me the postcard book of watercolor paper) with no undersketch at all -- I figured since I was on vacation it was okay to be loose. :P The first sketch is actually in Geneva, due to missing certain trains and. . . huergh. Anyway. Enjoy!

in which I am not dead, just in Switzerland

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:34:53 -0700

SO. I have not posted anything for a month, for which I hope you can forgive me! I have not given up my arting ways. I have, however, started working full time -- in Switzerland, for a professor I worked with in college. In September I will start grad school at the school I am currently working at. It is all very exciting! The obvious downside is that I have less time to do art (though one could argue I have more interesting architecture to draw.) I did, however, bring two paintings with me from Iowa to finish, and I started another painting today, so there should continue to a small trickle of illustration from me. This is a quick little pen sketch I did in the Cathédrale de Lausanne last Sunday.

Retirees (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:48:04 -0700

An old Ford truck and a Farmall tractor on a hill north of town. (The orange tractor was probably originally a John Deere, but I felt like being creative.)

Parisia (For Sale)

Sharon Gochenour (sjgochenour) — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:42:29 -0700

A sequel of sorts to Bostonia. Rue des Barres, Right Bank, Paris, France.