Okay, today’s sketch is another sample from the Seattle Asian Art Museum‘s excellent collection of Northern Indian Sculpture.
This one is a statue of a Jain Dancer done in marble from the 11th century.
As I mentioned a few times these sketches usually come out better than most since the Indian Art room doubles as the museum’s bistro. This means I can draw at a table.
In today’s Rhapsody we demonstrate that the Rhapsody is not limited to classical music, and what better place to start then with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Oh Freddy, we hardly knew ye.
Today’s sketch is Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene by Georges de La Tour as part of the Seattle Art Museum‘s Light in the Darkness exhibit. It’s a nice example of Chiaroscuro and was an interesting exercise and for the most part was just focusing on the shading as opposed to any attention to any of the detail.
For me there’s not many things as bad as turning on the computer and discovering that yesterday’s strip is still up. After frantically trying to put the new strip in with no luck and beginning to become convinced that there was something was wrong with my archives when I finally noticed what the problem really was just a typo… Apparently the archives do not agree with last night’s sleep deprived belief that there are 13 months in the year. Oops.
Well anyway, sorry for the inconvenience.
Okay for the next piece in our ongoing Tuesday Rhapsodies segment, Brahms’ Rhapsodies, Op. 79. I really should get into Brahms more. I mean I know just how experimental he was, how much of a personality he was… he had a biography in a “Lives of the Composers” set of records I listened to growing up, so I know a lot of the juicy details, like the love triangle with him and the Schuman’s. Heck, I’ve heard some great family stories about my great-grandmother remembering seeing people walking out of a Brahms concert in disgust, which should be endorsement aplenty.
However in my Classical Music listening choices I’ve never really gotten much farther than listening to his lullaby.
With any luck this piece will be the first step in correcting that mistake.
Well another Emerald City ComicCon is done and I had a great time. I met several creator’s, albeit briefly who’s work i have been admiring for some time including, Spike, Danielle Corsetto and Cory Bing. I sold some books… not enough to call it a success but I passed out a lot of business cards so all was good. This year will be the last time I do the Cartoonists Northwest Booth, for a while I thought being in the booth would be better, I had gotten a little fed up with Artist’s alley two years ago and decided being with my group in a more central location would be better for me. Of course last year the booth turned out to be a high traffic spot…. the way a 7-11 on Aurora is a high traffic spot, and the artist alley area turned around and stopped being the ghetto iit had been for the first few years.
I probably should have learned my lesson then and there and gone back but frequently these things leave me so burnt out it felt better to go with the flow and continue with the status quo. So this year the booth was a little better bu it was a little too close to the media section so while it had good traffic it was the kind of traffic that doesn’t stop to look at your display or your merchandise.
Still it was fun. While I didn’t sell as much as I’d like I passed out a lot of promotional cards and got a chance to walk around a little bit. As always the people watching is always the best part of this thing with the most popular costumes being Dr. Horrible and Deadpool. There were a few hectic moments of course, most notably my having to go back home Sunday morning because I forgot my cashbox and then on the way back downtown the bus I was on got a flat tire. But other than that, all went well.
With any luck I’ll recover by the end of the week.
