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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just going through some of the older stuff and decided to go with another sample from the Seattle Art Museum’s African mask collection. As I’ve mentioned before, I realll like the way they’ve been displaying these masks in context and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well as I mentioned earlier this week. The Seattle Art Museum was packed to the gills this Sunday so I didn’t really get into my zone at all as far as the sketching was concerned and so I just ended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I did the free first Thursday at Seattle Art Museum. yesterday. Because I have a membership I generally avoid it because the usually large crowds make it difficult me to get into my sketching zone. But I had gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…