Friday Museum Sketches

by on February 4, 2011 at 12:01 pm
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Okay, today’s piece is from the saloon gallery at the RISD Art Museum. I’m embarrassed to say I mislabeled it as the Marriage of Thetis & Pelius, which is in another room and so far I haven’t been able to ID it after the fact. Drawing this one was interesting as I botched my initial layout when getting the fundamental details down and everything kind of overflowed out of the initial rectangle, that I’d put down as a thumbnail for the composition and kind of spilled out onto the rest of the page.

UPDATE

It turns out my notes were right after all. Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael  Dutch 1566 – 1638 The Marriage of Pelius and Thetis 1610. It’s just when I looked it up to confirm all of the data steered me to the Marriage of Pellius and Thetis in the Museum’s Renaissance room.

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Seattle Graphic Artists Guild Presents Graphic Novel Panel this Saturday

by on February 2, 2011 at 9:38 am
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Hey everybody, a quick note for all Puget Sound based comic book artists. The Seattle chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild will be putting on a Graphic Novel Panel this Saturday at Cornish College. Come to hear such greats as Micheal Oeming, Phil Foglio, Mike Grell, Peter Bagge, Jason Janicki and Leigh Kellogg talk about their craft! This should be great and a must see people.

We open at 12:30 with the show starting at one! You can preregister for discount price at Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/143787 or 24/7 at Ticket Hotline: 1-800-838-3006

For those who don’t know, Cornish College of the Arts is at:

1001 Lenora St.
Seattle, WA 98121

The panel is in the Notions building on the Terry Avenue Entrance. Be seeing you!

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on January 28, 2011 at 7:00 am
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Today’s sketch is a couple of samples from the Seattle Art Museum‘s African mask collection. I like how the museum has been displaying these ever since the new building was completed. By putting the masks in their cultural context makes them all the more fascinating.

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Girl Genius Signings

by on January 12, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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Well I just got back from the Signing of Phil & Kaija Foglio’s new prose novel Agatha H & the Airship City. I haven’t had the chance to do more than scan a couple of chapters, but what I’ve seen is excellent adaptation of their original webcomic. I’m finding it interesting that having seen many a novel condensed into comics or film, seeing the process in reverse is quite fascinating. I look forward to reading it all in its entirety.

Phil & Kaija will also be appearing tomorrow on the 13th at Night Kitchen at 216 Stewart Street in Seattle, and on the 14th At University Books at 4326 University Way NE also  in Seattle and finally they’ll be signing at Rustycon on the fifteenth.

Phil will also be participating in a panel on Graphic Novels on Febuary fifth.

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on January 7, 2011 at 4:23 pm
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I’m embarrassed to say that despite spending two days at the MFA and several evenings at the RISD art museum I really didn’t do quite as many sketches done as I hoped. And once I got back into my groove I was so rusty I most of them weren’t very good. The lesson here, I guess is don’t take cameras to Art Museums that allow photography. Anyway this is one of the better one’s. They’re details from a roman wall from around 14 to 37 CE. The reason I say details is I kind of botched the distance between figures and to make up for it I moved everything together so there wouldn’t be any dead space.

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