A Cool Museum Treasure Hunt

 As you can tell from the group photo in the header, we had a somewhat smaller group in attendance at the museum this time. But it was nice to sketch someplace cool, look at some art and do some people watching. This time Judith set us a small challenge. We were to find places or artworks in the museum that met one of a list of words she gave us. Here is the list: gold, pattern, floral, faces, feather, treasure, hold, mask, struggle, old/new, bright/dark, space, cool, green, awkward, angles. As you look at what people drew, see if you can tell what they had in mind from the list.

Peggy Engel and Judith headed straight for the Egyptian collection. Peggy did something a little unexpected. Instead of drawing the FRONT of the statue of Ramses, she drew the hieroglyphs on the back.

Peggy

Judith

Judith's sketch took in one whole space in the museum complete with the people and the art. Do I see some sketchers on that bench in the back?

Judith

Judith's sketch of the canopic jar includes some of the hilarious questions and comments sketchers are likely to get when they are out and about in a museum.

Susan D

Susan decided "First things, first". She started with the familiar metro stop by the entrance to the Beck building and a bit of ephemera to mark the day.

Susan

Susan moved around the museum a bit collecting a bit of sculpture here, a tapestry there and  some people admiring the work in the Raqib Shaw exhibit.

Barry

Barry worked in graphite to draw this bust. Since we are restricted to dry media in the museum, people have to come up with more creative solutions.

Pay Ling

With that in mind, Pay Ling used watercolor crayons minus the water to draw these tapestries.

Phillip

Phillip also worked in pencil to draw two very different objects. But then he switched to pen for the Greek vase.

Phillip

Have you guessed any of the word prompts yet?

Jenny

You should be able to guess the words that inspired Jenny. And even guess the location if you go to the museum often.

Ouisie

Phillip's daughter Ousie took up the challenge. Always nice to have young sketchers join us.

Decha

Decha also drew an entire gallery view.

Chris

First I drew the gallery view with the classical sculpture and all the receding doorways. Just ink for that one. Then I went over to the Kinder where I found this intriguing wood sculpture set against an interesting wall. I used watercolor pencil for that one.

It was an interesting evening. We didn't do a traditional throw-down, but we did talk about our work a bit. 

We are looking for something a little different for our July sketchout. If you can think of an INDOOR venue it should Free or inexpensive and not too crowded on a Saturday for sketchers. Please make a suggestion on Insta or FB. Several of our leaders will be on vacay, so we will need you to show up and play "leader". It's not hard and I'm sure anyone who had attended a sketchout know the routine. Thanks. We all need to pitch in to keep this going.