Today’s sketch is another one from the RISD Museum‘s main gallery. Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne, Portrait of Antoine-Georges-Francois deChabaud-Latour and Family. 1806 This one is fun. Not only is it a beautifully crafted piece, that took me an hour to get right,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch comes from a very interesting exhibit the Seattle Art Museum did a few years back on the origins of Impressionism. The point is that all of the pioneers and experimenters of the time had to have a foundation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Art Museum’s porcelain collection. This one is called Children Drinking Milk. It was made in Sevres France between 1766 and 1773 and done in soft paste biscuit porcelain. The model is by Étienne Maurice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is a detail from Nicolas Poussin‘s Venus & Ares from the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Poussin was one of the artists that introduced me to Greek Mythology. My mother was a docent at the National Gallery and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch debuts my new Canon Pixma MG5420 multipurpose scanner and printer with the “The Exchange of Produce” (yes… really… while it is supposed to be allegorical I’m pretty certain the name looses something in the translation) by Francois Boucher[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
