Showing posts with label DaVinci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DaVinci. Show all posts

Sunday, November 21, 2010

DaVinci Is In Town

The Museum of Idaho has been holding its exhibit Decoding Da Vinci for several months now but I had not managed to get there yet.



















When I walked in the door I met my friend Robin who works as a docent at the museum. She is so much fun, it was great to see her.



















The exhibit was full of models of his inventions but I of course was more interested in seeing the art. There were replicas of his most famous paintings like this one. I had seen the original at the Louvre in Paris back in 2006. This one was bigger, most people do not realize that the Mona Lisa is actually a very small painting.



















and this one which I had not seen before.  I thought it was perfectly lovely.



















I was surpised to see that some of the pics we used in Misty Mawn's painting class were actually done by Da Vinci like this one.




















and this is one too. I had done a transfer with this and painted over it. I had not realized I was working with a DaVinci at the time.















Of course I had to pose with one of the posters. After listening to a movie on Leonardo I realized I am a lot like him. I have started many things that I never finished either.  It feels good to know I am in good company.















When we left there was quite the snow storm. This was taken sitting in the truck after just a minute or two. I have never seen such big snow flakes before. Winter has hit with a vengeance this weekend.  It melted a lot yesterday but today its snowing again.  I am glad that I have nowhere I have to go.