Today’s sketch is a couple of seperate angles from “The Baptism of Christ” a small bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini done in Florence in 1723. This statue is always a treat and a challenge to do, as there is so much detail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just thought I’d share a quick warm up sketch I did about an hour ago. Today’s background listening has been Carpe Jugulum which is the first appearance of the noble clan of Igor in the Discworld Series. So I thought[…]↓ 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…
Since Halloween is right around the corner I figured I’d go with a sketch from one of favorite novels, Mikhail Bulgakov‘s Master & Margarita that I seriously plan to do a finished version of. I love Bulgakov’s writing. Going back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit which ended last week. This one is Anne, Countess of Albermarie & Son 1777-9 by George Romney.
I’d forgotten I’d done this one. It was one of those pictures at the very end of your sketch book where you’re trying to fill the last ten pages as fast as possible so you can start the new one.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t been doing that many of these lately… Chalk it up to not having much good material… Mia culpa. Anyway there’s a funny story with this one. As I may have mentioned in the past I have a drinking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To make this month interesting I decided to do one of those sketch a day challenges and since this is the season I decided go with the Halloween theme. Anyway I spent a bit of time getting ready for it writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Halloween Sketch I drew… (I’m finding myself catching myself on the double meaning of this word this week. “I drew the card from the hat and then I drew what it told me to draw”) Ahem… I drew[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the first day of Folklife was short. Partially because I was keeping office hours and because of how early Memorial Day is this year. So anyway I got there Sixish and despite of the late start I had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
