Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection. It is an earthenware horse from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
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Recently one of my regular Sunday afternoon activities has been to bike down the Burke-Gilman Trail and check out the Markets in Fremont and Ballard. I’m finding myself enjoying the Ballard Farmer’s Market the most. I like all of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is the preliminary sketch for the background crowd of protesters for an establishing shot of the convention center at International storyline I did last year. I still like this original pencil drawing better than the finished inked version.
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Today’s Sketch is another from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection. “Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon” by the Baroque Italian painter, Guercino. done in 1624 It illustrates a myth from the Roman historian and moralist Valerius[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Well today’s sketch is just one of the better random pages from one of my sketch books. The Camel was on of my “doing pushups” exercises. The one that consists of me grabbing a bound volume of National Geographic magazines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Well after taking a break on it for over a year I finally got around to renewing my membership for the Seattle Art Museum and you know what that means… New material!! They’d rotated the exhibits a little bit since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain Room. This one is of Psyche and Cupid. It’s an example of Rococo made around 1765 of 67 in Ludwigsburg Germany. The hard paste model is by Johan Christian Wilheimberger (1725-1806) […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is yet another angle of Soldani‘s Lamentation of the Dead Christ.
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Today’s Sketch is from the Seattle art Museum’s Renaissance collection. It’s a Crucifixion by Lorenzo Monaco with the Virgin and St John watching. It was done in Egg Tempera in 1408.
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Today’s Sketch is a detail from Nicolas Poussin‘s Venus & Ares from the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Poussin was one of the artists that introduced me to Greek Mythology. My mother was a docent at the National Gallery and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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