Gouache, watercolor, string and chipboard half-size modello for a larger oil on board painting after Bassano’s Adoration of the Magi (1563). Each individual shape is laser cut and assembled on a slotted wooden base of my own design. The base allows both for painting and display without a frame. I suppose it’s more of a painted sculpture […]
Pencil study of The Elephant Hunter sculpture (1927), by Malvina Hoffman. This was one of the most striking pieces from the current retrospective of Hoffman’s work at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. If you are in Iowa, I recommend taking time to visit this exhibition.Like her mentors Borglum and Rodin, Hoffman gravitated toward interpreting the […]
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.