Well I did the free first Thursday at Seattle Art Museum. yesterday. Because I have a membership I generally avoid it because the usually large crowds make it difficult me to get into my sketching zone. But I had gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lake City’s “Pioneers’ Day” street fair was last Saturday. I confess it is not my favorite street fair of the season but it’s in my neighborhood and I like the community participation. Anyway one of the more popular venues at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well here we have the very last sketch in my current sketchbook. I went through this in just six months (a time period that used to be my average time but I’ve been going through them a lot slower lately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I just started breaking in my new sketchbook. Sometimes I’ll block for over a week to start one, obsessing over the perfect first picture. It’s like being a narcissist with a mirror. So there’s nothing like a little bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75) from the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first saw the ads for the Seattle Art Museum’s current exhibit, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, I automatically assumed it would just be Pre-Columbian Andean art and nothing else. I was so convinced in this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today, it’s back to the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian Sculpture collection. This time it’s Vishnu‘s third incarnation, Varaha the Boar done in sandstone from North central India in the 11th century, I’d done this one once before. But I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is a little something I did while waiting t0 get into “Thor: The Dark World” The real fun of these free screenings is they’re very much a social event you meet a lot of interesting people while waiting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As mentioned in a previous post I took another trip to the Seattle Art Museum’s Peru exhibit and was very productive time. So today’s sketch is of a pair of Moche painted stirrup vases from between 100 and 800 AD.
Today’s Sketch is more from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s China collection. Both are from the Tang Dynasty (between 618 and 907) the first is a Lokapala Guardian King the second is a tomb attendant. I’ve always liked the tomb[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
