Mothers Day & Raphael

I have basically written Mother's Day off.

The most I can hope for is a Happy Mothers Day text from Daya, which happened, and that's it.

So, it's just a day.

I have been meaning to go see the Raphael show at the Met.

We have spoken about it in egg tempera class, at least the people who went already talked about it.

I have been needing to 1) find a day to do it and 2) brace myself for the inevitable crowd, which I haven't been in the mood for.

Karen went and said it was too big.

Janette went and really liked it, said the drawings were excellent.

I agree with both of them.

The exhibit was "padded" with a lot of Raphael-contemporary or influences.

I get it, but it was still too big.

The drawings were lovely though, that was true- and some of the paintings.

I didn't photograph the whole show- not even close, but here are pics of things I liked.