One thing I love, love, love to do is to look at the world through my sketching eyes. As I sketch, I pick up on details that I normally would not notice. I also love how the image comes together, sometimes looking like the real thing, and sometimes a little bit better (errors and all).
I had an amazing experience at the Brooklyn Museum seeing the Kehinde Wiley exhibit. Although Kehinde is in only in his late thirties, he is already having a retrospective of his amazing work. While there, I saw a sign that said Figure Drawing: "Beats and Baroque" at the Brooklyn Museum presented by Liner Notes. Wonderful. Free wine, great music, and I get to sketch with live models. It was my lucky day. I thought, is this the kind of thing that happens in Brooklyn everyday? (Here's the playlist of the music on this youtube link below.) And there I was bobbing to reggae, trance, hip hop, old skool, R&B, funk, soul, and lounge music and sketching, humming and sketching, singing and sketching and having a lot of fun. (Trust me. It wasn't the one glass of red wine that we got.) I reminded myself of another famous young Black artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who mixed music into his artwork. He often listened to bebop and classical music and even television as he painted on huge canvases and door frames and recycled materials. I love visiting museums, seeing art, sketching, and illustration. It's a wonderful way to observe, and interpret the world. I photographed these models so that I could remember them and add any missing details to the images I started. One thing I love, love, love to do is to look at the world through my sketching eyes. As I sketch, I pick up on details that I normally would not notice. I also love how the image comes together, sometimes looking like the real thing, and sometimes a little bit better (errors and all).
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