if I lived there
by tobymarx
. . . I would probably never leave. Near the end of April I was a guest of the Sociology Department at Notre Dame de Namur College, which has its main offices in the old Ralston mansion in Belmont, California. While there, I had an opportunity to photograph the mansion house. Enjoy.
I hope they teach drawing here! That mansion is a wealth of drawing challenges for really looking at perspective, especially linear perspective and how things behind fit into the arches of the foreground structure.
They do teach drawing there. A friend of mine, Patricia Araujo, is a graduate (you can see her beautiful architectural paintings here).