Hope everybody’s enjoying their long weekend but while you’re enjoying your barbecue or festival take a moment to remember what it’s all about.
And who better to remind us than one of the champions of the cause, Woody Guthrie, with “Union Burying Ground”
A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker.
So let’s celebrate with Bird of Paradise from his 1947 album, The Charlie Parker Story: Volume 2
This week’s rhapsody is Rhapsody by Omega (from the album of the same name)
For today’s Rhapsody it’s back to Brahms with his Rhapsody in E flat major Op. 119. Performed by Irena Koblar, Live at The Great Hall of The Slovenian Philharmonic.
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.
