Today’s Rhapsody is Ton?i Hulji?‘s performed by Maksim Mrvica. I’m embarrassed to say I only heard of this one, as well as the performer until after I started researching more obscure rhapsodies but I really like it.
Today’s Rhapsody is Ton?i Hulji?‘s performed by Maksim Mrvica. I’m embarrassed to say I only heard of this one, as well as the performer until after I started researching more obscure rhapsodies but I really like it.
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Art Museu’s extensive collection of West African masks. This one is a wooden Baga headdress from Guinea called a Baga Nimba or D’mba.
The D’mba serves as a symbol of motherhood for the Baga people. They were also an inspiration for Pablo Picasso who bought two from Gertrude Stein in 1918.
For today’s sketch Is one I did last November at the Seattle Art Museum of ‘s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, It’s a small and very complex bronze statuette which I’m comfortably sure I could spend days on doing sketches at different angles with hardly a single image being remotely the same.
Today something a little different. The mad scene from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Okay, technically not a rhapsody, but it’s rhapsodic in form, so it counts.
Just had this skit pointed out to me, enjoy.
Well this week I took another crack at my old nemesis, the 15th century wooden carving of St. Luke the Evangelist from Flanders. As I’ve mentioned in the past it has a really weird forced perspective that I’ve yet to get right… but I keep trying.
This one went pretty well. I tried working from a different angle than usual that paid off. I also had the benefit of a chair this time. Seattle Art Museum’s medieval collection are in a hallway and I generally prefer not to get in the way of traffic, but since this was a week day right before closing I decided to chance it.
I got rushed in the end and I screwed up on the proportions which i managed to fix by redrawing the head, but otherwise this is one of my better attempts.