Okay this week it’s back to basics with Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Rhapsody # 10
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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