I could tell that this person was really sweet as she settled down at her table. I almost had enough time to sketch a second pose, but my 15 minutes were up before I got too far. The erasures photographed as grey areas, giving a smudgy look to the piece.
I started today’s square with a penciled free-form design. I hadn’t used pen and ink for a while, so instead of painting in the loops I inked them in using parallel lines of different orientations. I am reading about Willem de Kooning, who was constantly revising, scraping and repainting, as he worked on his canvases. I […]
