Sunday, May 17, 2015

Life Drawing Weekend, Part 2


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Kika

Patrick

Kika
Kika
Kika
Kika

Kika



Kika
Kika


Kika
Kika

Kika




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Life Drawing Weekend, Part 1

I had the best time this weekend during the 2-day life drawing workshop with Dalvero Academy, after Friday night's "aperitif" of a Drawing Social event that Veronica Lawlor and Margaret Hurst, founders of Dalvero, hosted at the Brooklyn studio.

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Here are some selected drawings from Friday night and the weekend. We worked with 4 incredible models: Kendall on Friday, Patrick and Goldie on Saturday, and Kika on Sunday.

Kika
Goldie
Kika

Patrick
Goldie
2-handed drawing of Goldie

Goldie

Goldie

Kendall (Drawing Social evening)
Kendall (Drawing Social evening)
Goldie






Kendall (Drawing Social evening)

Kendall (Drawing Social evening)


Part 2 is in the next post >



Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mayflower II Restoration in Mystic Seaport


The Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport is restoring Mayflower II, the 57-year-old wooden ship, a faithful replica of the 17th century Mayflower that brought Pilgrims to the New World. The original didn't survive. Mayflower II was built in Great Britain and then gifted to the United States; it symbolizes collaboration of Great Britain and the United States during the WWII.


Mayflower II is expected to be fully restored in time for the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival, in 2020.
Meeting the Wampanoag People. Without their help, the Pilgrims wouldn't have survived the first winter in the New World.
We visited Mayflower II this winter and early spring with Dalvero Academy, at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. It is much smaller than the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, and it has a cheerful personality. Presently, during restoration, there are only two masts on the ship. I look forward to seeing it fully rigged in Plymouth, where Mayflower II will spend the summer.