Museum day!

Today I spent the day with a bunch of other students at the Trick Eye museum in Seoul! The museum features 3D interactive paintings that are surprisingly realistic. I highly recommend this museum for anyone who ever comes to Seoul, and is interested in art! Here are some pictures below:

Just chillin' in impressionism!

Ahhh!!! I was laughing the whole time. This is the only picture I have a semi-serious "I'm about to die" face.

The paintings were often painted directly on the wall. The attention to shadow, contrast, lighting, etc. was just amazing! I would love to be able to paint like this one day. I will keep practicing! 

The paparazzi and me

Oh yeah, me and Obama are reee-al tight!

The museum also features an Ice Room with numerous sculptures. They kindly provided blankets for us, but even so it was only 2 degrees Celsius, and I was freezing! I lasted about 5 minutes, and had to leave, otherwise I would have become one of the sculpted ice attractions myself!

Freeeeeeeeeeeezing!

Just another one of those ice sculptures!^^

Thanks to my new friend Janie for all the photos! :D

Sketching Marburg

Me sketching the castle. Behind a view of Marburg.

I sketched the entry gate to the castle in Marburg, during our time there two weeks ago. Today the castle belongs to the University of Marburg, but until approx. 150 years ago, it was home of the Count.

My favorite part about sketching is that it really makes me look at what I'm drawing, and I think about it.

The thoughts coursing through my mind, while drawing this sketch, were about the people who must have lived here; the Lord's who called this Schloß home.

Did they know how beautiful the surrounding hills are? Did they live in fear of attacks from neighboring Lords? Were they happy?

Too the left you can spy part of the doorway to the entrance of the inner court.

Drawing doesn't give me answers to my questions. Nor does asking the questions make my drawing better, but it does help me appreciate the beauty and richness of history.

Brugge, Venice of the North

Stairs leading to pulpit, Cathedral in Brugge, Belgium; 8-1-13