I continue to be influenced by--indebted to, overwhelmed by--Vermeer. This is a charcoal study (with a bit of heightening in chalk) for one of the paintings I'm working on for the Home Work show at Green Hill in September; it's on tan Canson paper and about 12" x 15", cropped a little from the original 16" x 18", which the painting is. It was exciting (not a word I use much for my own artwork) to use charcoal again--it had been a long time. All the recent drawings have been pencil, and that certainly influenced how I used charcoal for this: more detail, more stumping, harder pencils. Not the wild vine of figure class!
