Pigeonnier near Figeac
Last week I joined Barbara Roth’s watercolor class here at La Cascade which inspired me to try my hand at representational drawing. I’ve always wanted to learn how to illustrate a travel journal. It gives a new meaning to travel, and I don’t have to go far. Pigeonniers, or pigeon houses were said to have been one of the major triggers for the French Revolution. The aristocracy and rich farmers enjoyed the benefits of having pigeons for sport and for the table. The problem was that the pigeons ate the peasant’s grain. Pigeons were very well housed and the pigioniers that weren’t destroyed in the Revolution are monuments to the wealth and imagination of the well to do.