I am so busted. I have scoured, but alas, no angels to be found. So, just me, singing away. Merry Christmas to your house, too!
Sweetly singing o’er the plain”…well you’re taxing me now How…but here is the same angel, two different years…1993 and 1995.
This is on the wall of the Sienna Baptistry and the stripes are green and white marble. It’s a small building, most notable for the fact that it houses the baptismal font with bronze reliefs. (The one we go to see is Donatello’s “the Feast of Herod” which is the first known application of one point perspective.)
“And the mountains in reply…” Merry Christmas to your house tonight.
We attended a lovely Christmas concert here over the weekend. The music was terrific, and I had a moment to sketch the altarpiece in this wonderful old place, built by German immigrants in the late 19th century.
Currently the Memorial Art Gallery is exhibiting the results of the 63rd annual Finger Lakes juried art competition. And so last weekend Assistant Curator Jessica Marten made a gallery talk about the annual show and competition as it was in the 50s, the jurors and the jury process, and some of the art selected in those years. While she spoke, I focused on a painting by Syracuse artist Gordon Steele (1906 – 1961), a work that won the purchase prize in 1957. It’s called “On the Porch”, and try though I might, I cannot find an image of the original. Anyway, here’s a sketch or two.
A woman leans on the porch railing while a man nearby appears to be reading a newspaper.
Kind of reminded me a tiny bit of a two story version of a Giotto we have parsed together.
Jessica Marten went on to offer an interesting recap of the reviews of the works in those days, with some pointedly lamenting the rise of ab-ex, and others defending same. It was a most interesting afternoon at the museum.
I joined the Sketchbook Project 2012 crew and my “theme” is “in 10 minutes. Here’s the front and back covers of my book…total time: 53 minutes. I’ll have to work on that…
A few sketches from Sioux Lookout last week.
From the end of the pier on Moosehorn Road, you can see the bridge at Frog Rapids. It looks like this:
It used to be a lovely steel truss bridge, but somebody ran into the trusses and the bridge had to replaced. I remember it like this, in the dotted lines:
If you are sitting on the pier and turn to your left, you can see across the bay to the old Sorenson place, which today looks like this:
There is a new house there now, and it looks like this:
And finally, the panorama from the dock. I did this, and then took some pictures the next day. Sketch first, then photo taken later.
Sketching is easier than using Photoshop, in my opinion.
We went to a terrific organ recital last month at the Memorial Art Gallery, and while we listened to Frescobaldi and Gabrieli, I made this.
Okay, I got an iPad 2. I love it. But in order to continue drawing I’m using an app my brother Doug suggested called “Penultimate” which is WAY too much fun…
you just draw with your finger and then “file” each drawing in a “notebook”…these are drawings of R and also quilt ideas…
Here’s a drawing of Alice Brown Powell in the Deepwood Scroll Garden, designed by Lord & Schryver for her. This drawing will be in a show called “Parks for People: Lord & Schryver’s Legacy” in the Focus Gallery At Bush Barn Art Center March 8 – April 30th.
