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…
Today’s sketch brings us to another visit to the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture gallery with a sketch of Buddha and two Bodhisattvas framed by arches and stupas from the Gandhara region.
Today’s sketch is another sample of the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Chinese sculpture. This one being a Dvarapala, or Gate Guardian, usually placed on the sides of a Buddhist alter as an attendant to the Guanyin.
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection. It is an earthenware horse from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
I hadn’t been to the Seattle Asian Art Museum so I was back to drawing a few old friends. This one of a Monk Achieving Enlightenment from the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) is one I’ve drawn many times (nothing in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I went to see the Asian Art Museum’s Buddhist Silk Road art in the Magao caves. This was all very good. I especially liked a lot of the nearly abstract quality of many of the figures and spent enjoyable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
