I headed to the Metropolitan Museum on Friday and sat myself down in the seldom visited Arts of Africa, Oceania and The Americas galleries. I found the masks, figurines and totem poles to be expressive little characters ripped right from a page of a comic book or frame from an animated movie; distinct personalities with stories waiting to be told and heard.Unfortunately, fifteen minutes into my second study (after getting over the small crowd of people looking over my shoulder while I was drawing), one of the guards politely tells me wet media is not allowed in the museum unless I have special permission. He added that pen/markers are also not allowed (as if he knew what my next choice in medium was). So caught off-guard (and annoyed) was I that I stormed out of the gallery and forgot to take down notes on the totems.
Think I might try the American Museum of Natural History next, as they have a larger collection of totem poles. Although I'll have to keep the watercolors at home. Boo.
