Rhapsodies

Today’s sketch I did last night at the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s free thursday to break in my new sketchbook. I don’t know what it is about the first page in a sketchbook perhaps it’s just a supersticion unique to artists (I’ve asked around, i’m not the only one who has this hangup) but even if I intended to do nothing but kindergarten level scribbles the first sketch in the book has to be good and special. Hell I’ve let new sketchbooks for weeks before I’ve finally gotten the muse to grace me with just the right idea for an image.

But fortunatly a little bit of life drawings circumvent that hangup… providing you have good material.

So today’s sketch is a return to Shiva and Parvati from Khajuraho done in the 11th century in sandstone. Yes I know I’ve done this one before… but this time it’s a slightly different angle.