Rollsstaedtler ink, prismacolor, moleskine
While being renovated, the Louvre Museum in Paris has shipped a collection of Roman Art for display in the United States. The collection opens at the Seattle Art Museum this weekend for a three month stay. Not often do many of us American mortals get to come so close to antiquity this aged.
I went to church this last Sunday with my wife. While the sermon was being delivered, quite expertly I will add, by a young man not long out of the seminary, I sketched this image tossed on the screen up front. I didn't get too many details from the sermon though because I wanted to get this down before they changed it to some other image.
Found this guy in a magazine and liked the way the light crossed his face. The majority of my time in this sketch was spent in and around the eyes and nose, although it also took a major amount of graphite to get the shadows on the left side of the face. The neck isn't finished, but I didn't have much interest in the neck other than giving it some space: the shadow on his right shoulder is obvously missing, but again, not interested in that part.
I intended to attempt to capture the intensity in the older man's face while he contemplated the move he's about to make with this bocchi ball; but I found myself engrossed with his hands instead.
She is Blake Lively and she stars in Gossip Girl which premieres on The CW sometime this week. If you get the TV mag, On Screen, with your Sunday newspaper, you saw her picture on the front cover in the last edition; and again, if you're like me, you never heard of her before.
A quick study this morning of Ringo Starr, ex-Beatle. But of course, is there anyone today who doesn't know Ringo Starr is an ex-Beatle? He replaced the first drummer they had, whose name escapes me now, and soon afterward they hit the Big Time. George Martin, who produced the Beatle's music once said, "Ringo Starr is one of the most phenomenal drummers of all time." Next time you listen to the Beatles, pay particular attention to Ringo's drums - they're fantastic. Ringo also wrote a few songs, he said he only knows three chords, so he would write the songs in those chords and give them to George Harrison who would return them beautifully embellished in ten to twelve chords.
