Today’s sketch is another one from the Louvre’s Roman Sculpture collection that was on tour four years ago at the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is from a marble alter consecrated to the Goddess Seline in the second century AD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture collection. It’s a Jain pendant for a vault from Rajasthan done in white marble in the 11th century.
Today’s Sketch is another statue from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. This one is of two Buddhist monks and the attendants from the Gandhara region.
I’ve done this sketch before. In fact I’ve done it several times. And why not it’s one of the nicest and most challenging pieces in the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. One of the things I like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection this one is part of a relief of “Showing the Reading of Auguries and Declaration of Sacred Vows” from the 1st quarter of the first century. It shows the emperor,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I try very hard to keep my politics separate from my work but a friend of mine brought this doll he modified to look like Mitt Romney and I just had to share it. This was done on the spot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is of the Lamentation of the Dead Christ by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, I’ve done multiple sketches of this piece before but the beauty of these baroque bronzes is they are so detail heavy you can draw them hundreds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is two admittedly rushed sketches from the Portland Art Museum. (I had my camera with me and that always plays havoc with my ability to draw.) Two examples of neoclassical sculpture, The Dead Pearl Diver by Benjamin Paul[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is just a small collection from one of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Roman art rooms. Mostly a bunch of generic portraits. I’ve always liked this facet of roman art that takes a mostly realistic approach to portraiture[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is one of Rodin‘s many studies for his statue of Balzac. This one being from the Seattle Art Museum. (Of course there have been several times when I have been surprised when a Museum does NOT have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
