Added 1 new A* page:I've been talking about sculpture around Seattle for the past few days, and a month ago I talked about sculptor Lorado Zadoc Taft, whose old studio building formed part of the art department facility at the University of Chicago, where I studied art. Well now the two can come together, because Taft's 1909 sculpture of George Washington stands proudly high on a pedestal above a square in the University of Washington campus here in Seattle:
image by Joe Mabel (source)
I probably walked under it at least once in ancient times (I wasn't a UW student but I did cross the campus on a few occasions) but I don't remember it. Should probably go and reconnect!
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Not sure about the drawing in today's page--I think I've probably been seeing a few too many of Giannis Milonogiannis' sketches on his tumblr. Like, I'm not at all sure what that neck is doing. Ah well. I did figure out a way to get the pencil lines to come through a little more crisply--basically, apply the contrast increase (Levels adjustment) *after* resizing the image, not before. Duh. : P More laborious to do it this way but better results, I think.
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