Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain Room. This one is of Psyche and Cupid. It’s an example of Rococo made around 1765 of 67 in Ludwigsburg Germany. The hard paste model is by Johan Christian Wilheimberger (1725-1806) […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is yet another angle of Soldani‘s Lamentation of the Dead Christ.
Today’s Sketch is a detail from Nicolas Poussin‘s Venus & Ares from the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Poussin was one of the artists that introduced me to Greek Mythology. My mother was a docent at the National Gallery and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I had a fun Sunday afternoon at a model session at my favorite comic book shop, The Dreaming, featuring the cosplay modeling superstars, the Super Sirens! I really have to attend more model sessions since they always do me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Porcelain collection. It is a timepiece representing Father Time made in 1745 (The idea was that you would rest your pocket watch in the funny bowl thing that the figure is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some details from an Annunciation, at the Seattle Art Museum, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi Aka Lo Scheggia, “the Splinter” done in egg tempera , 1440. I found myself quite taken by this piece. For a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Today we have the picture I finished off my last sketchbook with. This is a very brief portrait I did with someone I had a very good conversation with over at the Emerald City Comicon’s Drink and draw the night[…]↓ 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…
Well as I mentioned earlier this week. The Seattle Art Museum was packed to the gills this Sunday so I didn’t really get into my zone at all as far as the sketching was concerned and so I just ended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
