Musical Instruments - Two Works in Progress

The theme for the Still Life class at KAGS was Musical Instruments. We had a nice selection of instruments to choose from including a guitar, a violin, a ukulele, a clarinet, a keyboard, sheet music and maracas.

Seeing the violin among the instruments brought back memories of when I used to play in grade school, so I decided to draw the sketch of the violin first and will decide on the background later.

We tied both the violin and the guitar to the chairs they were resting on so they wouldn't be damaged if they shifted or accidentally fell.

Violin

For my next sketch I chose the ukulele and the maracas. I liked the contrast between the warm wood and the bright orange maracas.

To make it more in keeping with most musicians that work in the bars I added a bottle of wine, a half filled glass of liquor (in this case ice tea) and I still need to add a tip bowl to go with the coins.














Ukulele and Maracas

I will post each of these paintings when more work on them has been completed.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.