PRELIMINARY SKETCHES
- PRELIMINARY SKETCHES - Black color pencil sketches on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper.
There is something unique about sketch-work, it often turns out that because a sketch is done loosely, experimentally, searching for that sense of rightness, it has a wonderful characteristic, a certain "life" to it that just does not transfer over to the "finished" picture.
Perhaps it's because a sketch is the birth-place of an idea, it has the wistful innocence of a growing child. I have made over a thousand sketches on tracing paper throughout my career, that were transferred to drawing papers or canvas boards, after which I often discarded the sketches. But I did save some, and a few of them are shown here. I regret throwing all those other sketches away, some of them were better than the "finished" images that live on now in books and magazines.
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