Well since I had a very interesting conversation about this painting with my mother I just had to use this painting for today’s sketch. So here it is “The Supper of Erasmus” By Jan Cossier. I originally thought it dealt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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 sketch is a detail from the David and Goliath segment of Ghiberti‘s Gates of Paradise I did when it was touring in Seattle. I actually saw it in Florence long ago when I was in seventh grade. However at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another one from the Seattle Art Museum’s Roman Sculpture exhibit from the Louvre. This one is from a sarcophagus of a poet surrounded by his muses. (regrettably I’m having no luck finding a photo of the original)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I had a great time at the Family Fourth celebration. This year despite promising myself I would treat the holiday like a holiday I ended up having a relatively unproductive office day in which I never truly got into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s collection of Northwest Native American tribal masks. Both of these are Nuxalk (Bella Coola) The top mask is a Human/Bird face done in alder, red cedar bark, cotton cloth, hair, cotton[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
