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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, today’s sketch is an old one. It’s a statue of the god Shiva from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Indian collection. Apparently it’s from the Chola Period, 10th Century A.D. (unfortunatly this is another one of the sketches[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay for this week’s museum sketch we take you to the the Seattle Asian Art Museum and their wonderful Indian Sculpture gallery. I always like drawing in this room. First of course because of the great selection of Greco-Indian Sculpture[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, today’s sketch is another sample from the Seattle Asian Art Museum‘s excellent collection of Northern Indian Sculpture. This one is a statue of a Jain Dancer done in marble from the 11th century. As I mentioned a few times[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch Is one I did last November at the Seattle Art Museum of ‘s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, It’s a small and very complex bronze statuette which I’m comfortably sure I could spend days on doing sketches[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Today’s Sketch are a couple of different angles of a fragment of a Roman architectural relief from the first quarter of the 2nd century AD representing the preparation of an animal sacrifice, from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection. I can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another part of the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection; a Chinese statue of Guanyin from between the 10th and 13th century 10th carved in wood with lacquer, gesso, polychrome and gilding. I did this one ages ago[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is a detail from the David and Goliath segment of Ghiberti‘s Gates of Paradise I did when it was touring in Seattle. I actually saw it in Florence long ago when I was in seventh grade. However at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another one from the Seattle Art Museum’s Roman Sculpture exhibit from the Louvre. This one is from a sarcophagus of a poet surrounded by his muses. (regrettably I’m having no luck finding a photo of the original)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
