Tuesday, March 23, 2010
"Just a Little Drawing"
6:24am
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
"Anubis on the Hudson"
8:49pm
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"A 25-foot tall replica statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, with a suitcase at his feet, passes in front of the Statue of Liberty while taking a tour of the New York waterways, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The statue was traveling to announce the upcoming exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" starting on April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition." (AP via abcnews.com)
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For today's drawing I mostly went by the Seth Wenig/AP photo, but I consulted a variety of other photos. "Gadjet" Andrew's close up of Anubis' face was particularily helpful, as was also "Californian Em's" good view of Lady Liberty.
Julia and I saw "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" in July of 2005.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 A
Thursday, March 25, 2010 B
"Color Process so Far..."
7:05am
I'm using watercolor pencils and hope to smooth it out a bit...
"Colorful Anubis on the Hudson"
11:13pm
I wanted to have a more sunny scene, rather than the gray day it had been
so I even consulted my old photo from 2005
 Casper Bendel (master 1585; d. 1599), German (Breslau), last quarter of the 16th century Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 MMA 17.190.600 |
The info card further explains "Breslau, renamed Wroclaw, is now in Poland. The figure of Hercules is the work of Bendel; the shell and its mounts are nineteenth-century replacements."
Sunday, March 28, 2010
"Fragrant Mystery Solved"
8:49pm
But I was especially curious about the source of the fragrance:
This photo is from last year's March park walk...
I thought it was a mesquite tree, and went to the web to confirm my suspicions. I grew rather mad at the web, because I couldn't find photos of this sort of bloom. Finally, one website aided me. "Mesquites, a leguminous (bean-pod-bearing) tree, are relatives of the Acacias..." The link led to a more promising page. I went to Wikipedia, where a photo of exact match led to "Acacia farnesiana is used in the perfume industry due to its strong fragrance."
I checked the web further, and sure enough, every image of "Acacia farnesiana" (aka "Sweet Acacia") matched our park trees!
