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 piece is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Native American collection. It is a soapstone bowl made before 1800. from the shore of Shoal Harbor, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, and portrays a humanoid figure sitting and cradling a bowl in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just going through some of the older stuff and decided to go with another sample from the Seattle Art Museum’s African mask collection. As I’ve mentioned before, I realll like the way they’ve been displaying these masks in context and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from one of my favorite pieces from last year’s Seattle Art Museum exhibit “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris”, Frugal Repast. What I find fascinating about Picasso, whether I like his art or not, is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve done sketches of this Thunderbird mask from the Seattle Art Museum’s collection before but I thought this front angle came out really nicely.
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 a group of details from the painting Christ Before Pilate by a “Painter from Cologne” It was done sometime in the 16th century in oil on wood and is an example of Antwerp Mannerism. I have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the biking down town thing has been beginning to pay off and other that being a little saddle sore at times this has been going well. To the point that the only reason I need the bus anymore (not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some details from an Annunciation, at the Seattle Art Museum, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi Aka Lo Scheggia, “the Splinter” done in egg tempera , 1440. I found myself quite taken by this piece. For a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
