Today’s sketch is something a little different. I never really had that much of an interest in the Seattle Art Museum’s porcelain collection. But last Saturday I started doing some drawing of the figurines there as a change of scene.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay today’s strip is another from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian sculpture collection. This one is of a Kimnara from either Bhar or Bengal done in the Pala period C 12th century. It’s done in a black stone. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketches are details from two paintings by George de Forest Brush which were on tour at the Seattle Art Museum three years ago featuring his idealized visions of Native American Artists. The first is of an Aztec Sculptor. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I’d take a brief break from the Museum stuff and share another exercise with you. That is when watching your favorite DVD always remember that the pause button is your friend. Once you remember this every single DVD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some odds and ends from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s Greek collection. From right to left the first image is a Grave marker (Radeke Stele) from between the 6th and 4th century BC. The winged[…]↓ 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 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…
Well the second day went well. This was my second day biking to Seattle Center and I made it in 51 minutes. I had planned ahead a bit more than I had the day before and I had several venues[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a late start today for better or worse and arrived at Seattle Center by 12:30 (did it in 49 minutes on the Bike) Once I got there I started the day with a few scottish fiddler bands at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
