What were they thinking?
Playing Card with a Tether, 1470-1480, South Netherlandish
Sketch 033: Playing Card with a Tether (from a set of fifty-two playing cards), Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1983
Just when I thought it was safe to use my color wheel, my instructor passed by and noticed the same thing I had noticed: the red-to-orange sections looked too much alike. Back to the color mixing palette. In the end, my instructor sat down and in a few minutes corrected the reds and oranges. So now I have a color wheel I can use as a reference. (Even a couple of the greens received a touch-up.)
New and improved!
Before, with reds and oranges that looked too red or too orange
I have a few more sessions and then I’m taking a break from going to art class. I’ll see what I can do on my own for a while.
Sketch of a sculpture
Marble Head of a Horse, Greek (Attic), 2nd half of the 6th Century, BCE
Sketch 032: Marble Head of a Horse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Missing some achenes
After I took this photo, I went inside to change the camera lens. When I returned, all the achenes had blown away. I couldn’t find one dandelion in the yard with any achenes.
Monday Up Close
I didn’t proportion it correctly and so the snout is a bit shorter than it should be. I’ll sketch this again to try to get the proportions right.
Eight points
Hubby found this skull in the pasture where he trains the dogs. The deer died of natural (but unknown) causes.
(My “art studio” is a couple of towels draped over a dining room chair.)
Sketch 031: Deer Skull
