Well since it was such a nice summer day today I decided to stop vegetating at my usual haunts and go to the Seattle Arboretum with intent to do some watercolors. Unfortunately in my rush to get out of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just thought I’d share a little doodle I did in my sketchbook while watching Iron Chef a few days ago… cleaned up and colored of course. I haven’t decided if it’s a Hamster or a Guinea Pig (Gopher and Capybara[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my favorite exercises and pastimes is to take my sketch book to an art museum. This has several uses. The most obvious being the exercise of drawing, drawing and drawing some more. The second is that it forces[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s sketch is from the Rhode Island School Of Design’s Museum in Providence Rhode Island. The Salonn d’Or Hornburg by Willliam Powell Frith. You can see what it’s actually supposed to look like here.
As I said in an earlier post. I went to see the Picasso on Wednesday. I didn’t really do that much as I was just taking it all in and, no offense to all the other art lovers, I have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m embarrassed to say that despite spending two days at the MFA and several evenings at the RISD art museum I really didn’t do quite as many sketches done as I hoped. And once I got back into my groove[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay for todays sketch we return to the Seattle Art Museum with another angle of their Thunderbird Mask.
Okay, today’s piece is from the saloon gallery at the RISD Art Museum. I’m embarrassed to say I mislabeled it as the Marriage of Thetis & Pelius, which is in another room and so far I haven’t been able to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, today’s sketch is an old one. It’s a statue of the god Shiva from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Indian collection. Apparently it’s from the Chola Period, 10th Century A.D. (unfortunatly this is another one of the sketches[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is of The Triumph of Neptune by Luca Giordano at the Seattle Art Museum
