Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain collection. It is a timepiece representing Father Time made in 1745 (The idea was that you would rest your pocket watch in the funny bowl thing that the figure is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some details from an Annunciation, at the Seattle Art Museum, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi Aka Lo Scheggia, “the Splinter” done in egg tempera , 1440. I found myself quite taken by this piece. For a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch we have two quickies from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain collection. The first is a figure of Li Bai made in China during the Kangxi period (between 1662 and 1732) in Jingdezhen hard Paste. The second is German[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today we have the picture I finished off my last sketchbook with. This is a very brief portrait I did with someone I had a very good conversation with over at the Emerald City Comicon’s Drink and draw the night[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned on Monday I finally got around to seeing the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt Show last Sunday. Regretably I got their just under an hour before closing so all I had time for was a rushed circuit and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well as I mentioned earlier this week. The Seattle Art Museum was packed to the gills this Sunday so I didn’t really get into my zone at all as far as the sketching was concerned and so I just ended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I must admit I haven’t done Sakura-Con for a while. I used to, in fact I was the official photographer for the first three years back when it was still called Baka-con. I’d spend the whole weekend there and when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Asian Art Museum and is a stele of Maha Devi Durga (The supreme goddess Durga) made in central India during the 11th and 12th century out of sandstone. (The god Ganesha makes a nice little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch debuts my new Canon Pixma MG5420 multipurpose scanner and printer with the “The Exchange of Produce” (yes… really… while it is supposed to be allegorical I’m pretty certain the name looses something in the translation) by Francois Boucher[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit, Thomas Gainsborough‘s Two Shepherd Boys With Dogs Fighting from 1783. Since the place was pretty crowded on a Sunday afternoon, I took the exhibit tour afterwards.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
