Today’s sketch is a detail from the David and Goliath segment of Ghiberti‘s Gates of Paradise I did when it was touring in Seattle. I actually saw it in Florence long ago when I was in seventh grade. However at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another one from the Seattle Art Museum’s Roman Sculpture exhibit from the Louvre. This one is from a sarcophagus of a poet surrounded by his muses. (regrettably I’m having no luck finding a photo of the original)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch brings us to another visit to the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture gallery with a sketch of Buddha and two Bodhisattvas framed by arches and stupas from the Gandhara region.
Well I had a great time at the Family Fourth celebration. This year despite promising myself I would treat the holiday like a holiday I ended up having a relatively unproductive office day in which I never truly got into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. This one is from the famous temple site of Khajuraho in north central India, depicting the Hindu god Shiva and his consort, Parvati. This is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s collection of Northwest Native American tribal masks. Both of these are Nuxalk (Bella Coola) The top mask is a Human/Bird face done in alder, red cedar bark, cotton cloth, hair, cotton[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is something a little different. I never really had that much of an interest in the Seattle Art Museum’s porcelain collection. But last Saturday I started doing some drawing of the figurines there as a change of scene.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay today’s strip is another from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture collection. This one is of a Kimnara from either Bhar or Bengal done in the Pala period C 12th century. It’s done in a black stone. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketches are details from two paintings by George de Forest Brush which were on tour at the Seattle Art Museum three years ago featuring his idealized visions of Native American Artists. The first is of an Aztec Sculptor. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay today we’re doing more Indian sculpture from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection. Today we have a representation of Vishnu‘s third incarnation, Varaha the Boar. This statue is done in sandstone from the 11th century.
