Okay for this week’s museum sketch we take you to the the Seattle Asian Art Museum and their wonderful Indian Sculpture gallery. I always like drawing in this room. First of course because of the great selection of Greco-Indian Sculpture[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another one from the RISD Museum‘s main gallery. Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne, Portrait of Antoine-Georges-Francois deChabaud-Latour and Family. 1806 This one is fun. Not only is it a beautifully crafted piece, that took me an hour to get right,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene by Georges de La Tour as part of the Seattle Art Museum‘s Light in the Darkness exhibit. It’s a nice example of Chiaroscuro and was an interesting exercise and for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, today’s sketch is another sample from the Seattle Asian Art Museum‘s excellent collection of Northern Indian Sculpture. This one is a statue of a Jain Dancer done in marble from the 11th century. As I mentioned a few times[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well since I had a very interesting conversation about this painting with my mother I just had to use this painting for today’s sketch. So here it is “The Supper of Erasmus” By Jan Cossier. I originally thought it dealt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well this week I took another crack at my old nemesis, the 15th century wooden carving of St. Luke the Evangelist from Flanders. As I’ve mentioned in the past it has a really weird forced perspective that I’ve yet to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch Is one I did last November at the Seattle Art Museum of ‘s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, It’s a small and very complex bronze statuette which I’m comfortably sure I could spend days on doing sketches[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Art Museu’s extensive collection of West African masks. This one is a wooden Baga headdress from Guinea called a Baga Nimba or D’mba. The D’mba serves as a symbol of motherhood for the Baga[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch are a couple of different angles of a fragment of a Roman architectural relief from the first quarter of the 2nd century AD representing the preparation of an animal sacrifice, from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection. I can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another part of the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection; a Chinese statue of Guanyin from between the 10th and 13th century 10th carved in wood with lacquer, gesso, polychrome and gilding. I did this one ages ago[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
