Day 0004

Today's drawing is fairly execrable, but I am going to excuse myself as I was on a transatlantic flight. I'll do a better version tomorrow -- the original drawing is an exquisite study by Rubens. Check out the free pdf of Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (2005) from the Met, from which I will be working extensively I think. Note that there are hundreds of high-quality free PDFs on that site that are worth looking at.

I managed to squeeze in an hour at the Goya exhibition before my flight. Much too much to take in, but I now know what I need to go back and look at in more detail. He's great at describing textures with an almost abstract abandon in some later work, and he makes excellent use of the palette knife when he's rendering lace. Need to look into Velázquez as well.