Rhapsodies

Happy Birthday Dizzy!

by wpmorse on October 21, 2011 at 7:00 am

Posted In: Test

I’m ashamed to say that I’m late in my appreciation for the great Dizzy Gillespie. For the longest time when my knowledge of Jazz pretty much consisted of the “basics” like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, he was one of the other musicians… Specifically the one I only remembered because of the puffed cheeks and the funny looking horn. It was only later when I realized and appreciated just what he could really do with the thing.

To make up for that let’s watch him have a really good time playing “St. Louis Blues” with the Electric Mayhem.

└ Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Electric Mayhem, Jazz, Muppet Show, Muppets

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Friday Museum Sketches

by wpmorse on October 21, 2011 at 5:26 am

Posted In: Art

Today’s sketch is a couple of seperate angles from “The Baptism of Christ” a small bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini done in Florence in 1723. This statue is always a treat and a challenge to do, as there is so much detail that every single time I give it a try I get something different.

└ Tags: Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian Art, sculpture, Sketch

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on October 18, 2011 at 6:13 am

Posted In: Test

Today we are going to do George Gershwin‘s other rhapsody, the Second Rhapsody also called the Rivet Rhapsody. Enjoy.

└ Tags: George Gershwin, Music, Rhapsody

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Friday Museum Sketches

by wpmorse on October 14, 2011 at 10:28 am

Posted In: Art

Today’s piece is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Native American collection. It is a soapstone bowl made before 1800. from the shore of Shoal Harbor, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, and portrays a humanoid figure sitting and cradling a bowl in its lap. What interested me about it when I first saw it was just how mesoamerican it looked and had me thinking about patterns of human migration as I drew it.

└ Tags: Native American Art, sculpture, Seattle Art Museum, Sketches

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Norwegien Poster

by wpmorse on October 12, 2011 at 4:28 pm

Posted In: Test

Just saw this promotional poster for the Students and Academics International Assistance Fund (SAIF) over at PZ Myers’s Pharyngula and had to share it with everybody. Apparently it offended the sensibilities of Iran’s Ambassador to Norway.