Pencil study of the sandstone Head of Buddha (584 AD) from the collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum:This sandstone Buddha head originally resided in Cave Eight of the Tianlongshan Buddhist caves in Shanxi province. It is dateable to 584 A.D. by the stele outside the Cave Eight entrance. Cave Eight is approximately 14 feet on a […]
An inadequate sketch after Kollwitz’ disturbingly penetrating self portrait etching, shown during the Nelson Atkins show World War I and the Rise of Modernism.
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.
I was able to make this little drawing of the Burgomaster on the spot from ter Borch’s painting while visiting the Nelson Atkins’ recent exhibition, Reflecting Class in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer.
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 […]
45-minute sketch in pencil. Not as fine as the bust of the same brute in the Nelson-Atkins Museum collection, but still a treat to draw.
Sometimes filling a sketchbook creates strange, unintentional juxtapositions. On the left: Dr. Nicholas Ellen, preaching. Right: damned man wailing from the pit of Hell in Cranach’s Last Judgement, from the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City.