Our friend, the art teacher Benoit Lacroix told Arnaud that he should draw this scene in Toulouse. All I saw was an iron fence and a garbage can. Benoit was convincing Aranud and Jean-Christophe that there was an enourmous building next door that they could jam into their long horizontal sketchbooks making it fabulous. I never would have chosen to draw this but I rolled up my sleeves and pulled a rabbit out of my hat. I love the challenge of making something out of nothing.
