I must admit I haven’t done Sakura-Con for a while. I used to, in fact I was the official photographer for the first three years back when it was still called Baka-con. I’d spend the whole weekend there and when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I did another day at Sakura-Con. I can’t say I got quite as many good pictures this time around. While there were plenty of people in costume there weren’t many of the “professional” cosplayers so there wasn’t that many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Asian Art Museum and is a stele of Maha Devi Durga (The supreme goddess Durga) made in central India during the 11th and 12th century out of sandstone. (The god Ganesha makes a nice little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch debuts my new Canon Pixma MG5420 multipurpose scanner and printer with the “The Exchange of Produce” (yes… really… while it is supposed to be allegorical I’m pretty certain the name looses something in the translation) by Francois Boucher[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit, Thomas Gainsborough‘s Two Shepherd Boys With Dogs Fighting from 1783. Since the place was pretty crowded on a Sunday afternoon, I took the exhibit tour afterwards.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t been able to get as much of the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit as I would like. I’ve been either going there on the weekend when it’s packed which does not really lend itself to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is an Allegory of the Four Elements done in 1611 by Louis Finson (1580-1617). I really like this piece. Every time I look at I can’t believe that is was done in the seventeenth century. It keeps making[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the Street Fair season has begun again. Starting with my very favorite, The University District Street Fair on the Ave! And it had everything it always has Music, overpriced festival food, obnoxious evangelists, arts and crafts, the list goes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a relitively late start for the first day of this year’s Folklife. Firstly because I was running a little late finishing my week’s quota and also the ongoing construction on Mercer blocked my traditional route under Aurora Ave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well other than another slightly late start getting out the door. This was another good day at folklife. As far as the sketching was concerned it took me a while to get into my game and perhaps because I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
