For today’s sketch we have two quickies from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain collection. The first is a figure of Li Bai made in China during the Kangxi period (between 1662 and 1732) in Jingdezhen hard Paste. The second is German[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new bike is beginning to pay off great dividends. While it isn’t that much faster than my old dirt bike (It seems to be cutting off about five minutes from my previous best times) It handles hills REALLY well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned on Monday I finally got around to seeing the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt Show last Sunday. Regretably I got their just under an hour before closing so all I had time for was a rushed circuit and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Serendipity is an interesting thing. I had gone downtown to the Seattle Art Museum to continue with my viewing and recording of the Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London exhibit. When I got there a good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75) from the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first saw the ads for the Seattle Art Museum’s current exhibit, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, I automatically assumed it would just be Pre-Columbian Andean art and nothing else. I was so convinced in this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch are a batch I did at a drawing meet up over at the Olympic Sculpture Park. I won’t say I’m really a fan of any of the pieces their, but it’s a nice place to chill and there’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, Now that I finished the Halloween Challenge I can get back to doing this. One of the current exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art From India” a selection of contemporary art from all around India.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Seattle Art Museum has recently announced that it was going to remove it’s iconic (some would say notorious) display of exploding cars from the museum lobby. So the obvious question is what will take it’s place. It occurs to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
