Beete Mask: Ram (Bata) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Recognizable, mostly
Beete Mask: Ram (Bata)
Sketch 007
Beete Mask: Ram (Bata) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979.
From hubby’s duck collection.
One-footed duck
Duck statuette
I left out the bottom of the statuette; it looked hard to draw. Well, everything looks hard to draw. Now that I see the photo and the sketch together, I see a number of things to do differently. The head is tilted too low. I have the dark and the light in opposite places on the chest and side. The foot is also tilting down too much. Hmm, learn something new everyday, right? (Which is the point of all this!) The goal is to see these things the first time around and then sketch.
Sketch 006
Hippopotamus from Egypt, 1961-1878 BCE, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tattooed hippo
Hippopotamus from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sketch 005
Hippopotamus from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917.
Happy Cat
When I first uploaded the photos to my computer, I saw that my sketch was a Happy Cat, with quite the upturned mouth. I adjusted it some, but it’s still off. I tried to use shading a bit, with a blending stump. Shading helps with making a sketch look more dimensional and won’t it be a good thing when I learn how do to this?
Jaguar letter opener
I didn’t sketch the whole letter opener, as I’m working on a small sketch pad. The face would have been lost at that size.
Letter opener
Jaguar Letter Opener, Sketch 004
Sandals by Salvatore Ferragamo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I would have guessed they were from the 1960s, but no! 1938! Signore Ferragamo was ahead of his time. Or were the 60s a flashback?
Using an H pencil. I have no idea what I’m doing
View Sandals by Salvatore Ferragamo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sketch 003
Sandals from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Salvatore Ferragamo, 1973
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