Two studies of sculpture at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The left is of the foot of Atalanta from Mosca’s Atalanta and Meleager with the Calydonian Boar, ca. 1564-1565. The right is from the 12c. Indian Yoga-Narashimha.
Over the last few weeks I have been trying my hand at encaustic painting, while at the same time finally setting myself to learn some basics of anatomy. I’ve always had a sketchy grasp of the human hand, so it seemed a natural place to start. Slowly building up the wax musculature from the bones out, and literally […]
