A Cool Museum on a Hot Evening

Our group

It was nice to be able to sketch in the very cool Museum of Fine Arts Houston on a very warm summer night. And we had an excellent turnout for this sketchout. Welcome to all the new sketchers.

Indah brought her IPAD and her Apple pen and did a sketch in Procreate. You can see that in our header. Always nice to see someone using different media.

Now the first thing you encounter in the Law building is the very large Ernesto Neto interactive installation in the center exhibit space. Kids and adults alike were having a ball. But HOW to sketch something like that?

Just to give you an idea what we were up against...

Susan took a pretty direct approach. She chose to sketch from down in the lobby looking slightly upward.

Susan

Judith sketched from the same area. Her two versions are a reminder that adding elements after are permissible. She added a little color in Procreate that makes the people pop out.

Judith

Maggie also drew from this angle, but she soon chose a slightly different approach to this complicated subject.

Maggie

I went around the other side of the sculpture where people entered for the full experience.

Chris

Lisa chose a more vertical view.

Lisa

Rebecca also drew from the entrance side. Her sketch is very dimensional and the sculpture floats on the page.

Lisa

Chetna

The little figure on the side of Chetna's sketch is a rain god she discovered in one of the other galleries.

Megan

Kirby

And finally there was Michael who simply worked in plain pencil. He did manage to get really good contrast and capture the floating effect. Nice shadows too.

Michael

Some sketchers chose to sketch the museum building or the sculpture garden. Isabel drew

the lobby of the Beck.

Isabel

Astrid, Tami and Vivian drew stairways in the Kinder.

Astrid

Tami

Vivian

Fahed and Indah drew the sculpture garden.

Fahed

Indah

The rest of the group went into various galleries and drew from the museum collection.

Jeff and Akil found a boat.

Jeff

Akil

Kim found some totems.

Kim

Decha and Payling found some interesting sculptures.

Decha

Decha

Payling

Rita found a lion that interested her.

Rits

Olinda was visiting us again from Dallas. She drew a collection of images.

Olinda

We had our throw down in the lobby. What a collection of images!

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