Today’s sketch is another from Seattle Art Museum’s European gallery. This one is a Flemish Baroque painting by Abraham Janssens, the Origin of Cornucopia. Technically it’s a beautiful done piece but sometimes I have to wonder about just how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I’d take a brief break from the Museum stuff and share another exercise with you. That is when watching your favorite DVD always remember that the pause button is your friend. Once you remember this every single DVD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some odds and ends from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s Greek collection. From right to left the first image is a Grave marker (Radeke Stele) from between the 6th and 4th century BC. The winged[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s piece is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Native American collection. It is a soapstone bowl made before 1800. from the shore of Shoal Harbor, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, and portrays a humanoid figure sitting and cradling a bowl in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is a couple of seperate angles from “The Baptism of Christ” a small bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini done in Florence in 1723. This statue is always a treat and a challenge to do, as there is so much detail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just going through some of the older stuff and decided to go with another sample from the Seattle Art Museum’s African mask collection. As I’ve mentioned before, I realll like the way they’ve been displaying these masks in context and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Chinese Sculpture. This one is a Lokapala. Specifically the Guardian king of the west.
Today’s sketch is another sample of the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Chinese sculpture. This one being a Dvarapala, or Gate Guardian, usually placed on the sides of a Buddhist alter as an attendant to the Guanyin.
Today’s sketch is from one of my favorite pieces from last year’s Seattle Art Museum exhibit “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris”, Frugal Repast. What I find fascinating about Picasso, whether I like his art or not, is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve done sketches of this Thunderbird mask from the Seattle Art Museum’s collection before but I thought this front angle came out really nicely.
