Neck needs to be longer
Water Bottle from Tutankhamun’s Embalming Cache, ca. 1336–1327 BCE
Sketch 035: Water Bottle from Tutankhamun’s Embalming Cache, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909
Last year I came across the Moustache Cup Collection at the Bell County Museum. I was quite taken with the exhibit. Tea time was a serious business!
Our electricity went out this morning for just over an hour. I sketched this cup while sitting near the dining room window, which usually has a ton of natural light. This morning, however, there is heavy fog and visibility is limited to about 100 yards. This is how the cup looked to me in the fog light.
How it looked, in the fog light
I managed to find two moustache cups at an antique store, although I don’t think mine are really antique. It seems they were popular from about 1860 to 1930.
Moustache Cup
From a bygone era
Sketch 034: Moustache Cup
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
It's a long story ... 