The honeysuckle in Grandmother’s Flower Garden was about to burst into bloom when I was there. This garden is next to the Texas Quilt Museum in La Grange, Texas.
Monday Up Close
A rapid sketch
Roman, 1st century BCE – 1st century CE
Sketch 052: Glass Oinochoe (jug), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
I love live music in the middle of the day. This musician is Buzz Guerra, someone I’ve known for 30 years. He plays his acoustic guitar at Whole Foods Market on Saturdays and it just makes for a wonderful lunch environment. When I find live music at lunchtime anywhere, I always put those establishments on my list of places where I like to eat.
Buzz Guerra at Whole Foods Market
I’m much happier with this feather sketch than with others I made some time ago. The proportions are still off, (I didn’t leave enough room for the bottom portion of the quill), but getting better.
Getting close
I found this feather earlier in the week while hiking the Canyonlands Trail in Lakeway, Texas. My guess is that it belonged to a vulture (black or turkey vulture?). All the trails have signs about not removing any wood, rocks or any kind of artifacts, but I thought that as this fell from the sky and didn’t originate on the trail, I would claim it.
Vulture feather
I used the edge of a paper to draw the guitar strings. No, I can’t draw a straight line by myself.
Guitar by Christian Frederick Martin, ca. 1838
Sketch 050: Martin Guitar, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1979
