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Just something fun I whipped up the other day.
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One of my favorite exercises and pastimes is to take my sketch book to an art museum. This has several uses. The most obvious being the exercise of drawing, drawing and drawing some more. The second is that it forces[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Well, I finally got around to getting my first look at “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris” at the Seattle Art Museum. I won’t pretend that I was ever Picasso’s number one fan. Even though I value his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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As I said in an earlier post. I went to see the Picasso on Wednesday. I didn’t really do that much as I was just taking it all in and, no offense to all the other art lovers, I have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is some odds and ends from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s Greek collection. From right to left the first image is a Grave marker (Radeke Stele) from between the 6th and 4th century BC. The winged[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is from one of my favorite pieces from last year’s Seattle Art Museum exhibit “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris”, Frugal Repast. What I find fascinating about Picasso, whether I like his art or not, is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s sketch is from the exhibit “Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past ” that was at the Seattle Art Museum in 2008. The whole idea of the exhibit was showing the foundations of European Art that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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