Well this weekend I finally renewed my membership for the Seattle Art Museum. I’d been putting it off for various reasons, such as going through one of my stingy periods, memorizing the exhibits and general procrastination. Anyway, the main reason[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
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…
Okay for todays sketch we return to the Seattle Art Museum with another angle of their Thunderbird Mask.
Today’s sketch is a couple of samples from the Seattle Art Museum‘s African mask collection. I like how the museum has been displaying these ever since the new building was completed. By putting the masks in their cultural context makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is of The Triumph of Neptune by Luca Giordano at the Seattle Art Museum
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…
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…
