There's so much complex artistry in these artifacts. They really call for sustained drawings. I'd love to have a month to paint one of these....Perhaps. Perhaps I will. More on that later.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Samurai Armor at the Pointe-à-Callière
This winter the Pointe-à-Callière (Montreal Museum of Archaeology and
History) has been hosting Dr. Richard Béliveau's collection of Samurai
Armor. This is fascinating stuff to draw. Each one of these sets of
armor calls on masters skill in metalwork, embroidery, fabric dyes,
wood work, scrimshaw.
There's so much complex artistry in these artifacts. They really call for sustained drawings. I'd love to have a month to paint one of these....Perhaps. Perhaps I will. More on that later.
There's so much complex artistry in these artifacts. They really call for sustained drawings. I'd love to have a month to paint one of these....Perhaps. Perhaps I will. More on that later.
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8 comments:
These are beautiful.
I looove sketching Samurai Armor too.
There's a large collection coming to my local museum in April:
Can't wait!
Stunning, Marc...what amazing creations these are.
Gorgeous pencil work, Marc!
Looking forward to seeing your Mike - I do love the MFA. It would be awesome to do a workshop someday - taking people drawing there :)
Like Lynne's armoured Elephant posted above, these guys would have been terrifying in battle! Great sketches.
A Samurai Workshop would be amazing!!
I also did a bunch of Samurai armor sketches last December at another Massachusetts favorite of mine "Springfield Museum" . They had 6 full body armors - not very well lit thought.
I haven't scanned those in yet so maybe I'll do that tomorrow!
I think I saw you there! I was visiting Montreal for the first time and thought I might try to contact you as a fellow sketcher, but was too shy. Ended up at the museum because it was so cold and saw someone sketching this exhibit, which gave me the courage to do the same! What a small world!
Hey Kate - you should have come over :) That would have been great! Always cool to meet a sketcher on location. If you're still in town Feb 24, we're doing our USK:MTL Sunday Sketching - meeting at 10AM at the Place Des Arts metro, (green line): http://urbansketchersmontreal.wordpress.com/sketching-outings/
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