tag: drawing

Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petalsNew York Times clipping from 1883 recounting Ingres confronting Delacroix at dinner — 'Drawing, Sir, drawing is honesty! Drawing, Sir, drawing is honor!' — spilling his coffee in his furyPage from Chip Sullivan's Drawing the Landscape: exercises for drawing with a pencil in your mouth, an ink-dipped stick, your nose, and finally with your eyes closedMichelangelo-school marble Adam beside a charcoal master copy of the same statue, face left blank in the drawingSketchbook pencil studies: a woman's downcast face, a dark heavily-shaded bearded man grimacing, and a faint construction-lines headTorn scrap covered in handwritten 'yes yes yes' around a Tale of Tales Endless Forest calling card and a blue A PRIOR airmail stickerGrayscale digital painting of two drooping peony buds, ink-dark leaves against a smudged white skySketchbook spread drawn from a hospital bed: flowers in a water glass by the curtain, the IV stand, and the cannulated hand with one line touched in pinkColored-pencil drawing on gray paper: a dead tulip, petals collapsed like drapery over a ghost of yellow

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