Posts Tagged Painting
This week’s sketch is from the Rhode Island School Of Design’s Museum in Providence Rhode Island. The Salonn d’Or Hornburg by Willliam Powell Frith. You can see what it’s actually supposed to look like here.
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…
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…
Today’s sketch is of The Triumph of Neptune by Luca Giordano at the Seattle Art Museum
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 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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well since I had a very interesting conversation about this painting with my mother I just had to use this painting for today’s sketch. So here it is “The Supper of Erasmus” By Jan Cossier. I originally thought it dealt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch are from the Seattle Art Museum’s Medieval collection. Specifically details from the Conversion of St. Paul by Luca di Tommè done in tempera around 1380 & 89. While it’s easy to knock medieval art, making fun of how stylized[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…