All my students are groaning right now as they read the title of this post: “In Context—Painting Rocks.”
Don’t worry, I’m not going to go on about Ruskin, today. I just wanted to post this rock portrait because April marked a return to painting in color for me, after a long bout of pen and ink. So it was important. And of course it is a favorite subject—a Lake Superior rock (many, many gallery paintings of them in the 2000s through 2018; I am still obsessed).
And it is on a favorite toned paper. (The current Annigoni Designo seems to have a different sizing. The paper in this scan is in a book I bound in 2009.)
Simply, as with my other “In Context” posts, they speak for themselves; no missing paragraphs here.
I hope you find your way to your favorite subject, paper, and paint—and have fun every day trying to find them. These experiments will sustain you.
Get busy sketching.
