Sketchbooks Number 1: Don Doe

  The three sets of drawings below, Orient, Rome, and Pont Blanc show what a startling effect a change of scene makes in Newman’s work. This is what she writes about them: “ I think of […]

“Think of some pairs of opposites in which neither member could exist if it were not for the real or implied existence of its opposite.”*. (If you have not read the first installment and practiced […]

  “Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented.” Chaim Soutine I love that quote and maybe charcoal should be added, too. Jacque Rochester’s work is luscious and generous but she’s awfully sparse with her […]