Pencil sketch of Kollwitz self portrait etching
An inadequate sketch after Kollwitz’ disturbingly penetrating self portrait etching, shown during the Nelson Atkins show World War I and the Rise of Modernism.
Nelson Atkins Museum
Atalanta’s foot, hand of Yoga Narashima
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.
Drawing of Burgomaster portrait after Borch masterpiece
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.
Encaustic painting of the human hand
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 […]
Bust of Emperor Caracalla, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
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.
Preacher and Cranach’s damned man
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.