Every Day in May and EDM Challenge #119: May 19 and 20
May 19th: I sketched my EDM Challenge while at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday on the World Wide Sketchcrawl. Rocks are a little hard to find in my immediate neighborhood and the weather was too awful to go into Central Park to paint one of the big rocks. So I painted 3 big rocks that make up the side wall of the Temple of Dendur (15 B.C.E.). This allowed me to really focus on the engraved drawings - which are wonderful. There are approximately 5-6 figures down each side of the Temple and I don't think that any two are the same.
May 20th: I walked 10 blocks from home, looked around, and sketched a small piece of the roofline of the Jewish Museum on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. There was a man sitting on the one of the benches painting the facade in a wonderfully loose, impressionistic style. I sat on the curb (because 5th Avenue was closed to traffic) and tried to just capture a little of the essence of the complicated architecture and decoration. I love the aged copper portions.
Comments
love the egyptian...and the roof is suh a nice delicate color...lovely job as usual Shirley...darn I CANNOT type tonite...
Posted by: Margaret Hunt | May 20, 2007 6:48 PM
What a lovely idea (10 blocks from home) and you certainly have a fabulous 10 blocks to work with - Great start with this sketch.
Posted by: sandy | May 21, 2007 10:40 AM
I love that temple. Sister and I didn't go into the Met last week; we got there only 45 minutes before closing time so decided to continue up the street to the Guggenheim instead.
Posted by: Hashi | May 21, 2007 11:30 AM
Love the drawing of the museum!some nice dlicate lines here..
Ronell
Posted by: Ronell | May 21, 2007 12:06 PM
The Metropolitan is one of my favortie museums. I've yet to explore all it's treasures. Your everyday in may sketches are wonderful and I love how you rendered the Jewish Museum.
Posted by: mARTa | May 21, 2007 11:35 PM
Beautiful sketches! Anything you want is in NYC, I think. I don't particularly like cities, but I have a soft spot in my heart for NY. I envy you being there. Keep up the wonderful work.
Posted by: Sherie | May 29, 2007 9:56 AM