Today’s Sketch are from the Seattle Art Museum’s Medieval collection. Specifically details from the Conversion of St. Paul by Luca di Tommè done in tempera around 1380 & 89. While it’s easy to knock medieval art, making fun of how stylized[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the exhibit “Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past ” that was at the Seattle Art Museum in 2008. The whole idea of the exhibit was showing the foundations of European Art that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch, from the Seattle Art Museum, is of “Tower of Mothers” by Käthe Kollwitz. This was the first piece I had ever seen Kollwitz and regrettably the first time I’d heard of her. Since then I’ve been enjoying the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another one from the Louvre’s Roman Sculpture collection that was on tour four years ago at the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is from a marble alter consecrated to the Goddess Seline in the second century AD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture collection. It’s a Jain pendant for a vault from Rajasthan done in white marble in the 11th century.
Today’s museum sketch are from two rubbings of a series that were on display at the Seattle Asian Art Museum depicting the Eighteen Arhats (or Lohans) attributed to the monk Guan Xiu. The one on the top is Pantha the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another statue from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. This one is of two Buddhist monks and the attendants from the Gandhara region.
I’ve done this sketch before. In fact I’ve done it several times. And why not it’s one of the nicest and most challenging pieces in the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. One of the things I like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection this one is part of a relief of “Showing the Reading of Auguries and Declaration of Sacred Vows” from the 1st quarter of the first century. It shows the emperor,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the second day went well. This was my second day biking to Seattle Center and I made it in 51 minutes. I had planned ahead a bit more than I had the day before and I had several venues[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
