playing around

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This past winter I saw an exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum called Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth.

It consisted of works on paper, all 16x20 and larger, that were left untitled because Wyeth considered them, I guess the word is, sketches, or maybe: practice.

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Nowhere, at the exhibit or in the catalog, is the kind of paper Wyeth used named or described; perhaps he didn't record it as these paintings were kinda toss-offs. Some papers had the tooth of a cold press or rough watercolor paper.

.         3. Painted with palette gray

But many more had a smooth surface and appeared lighter in weight; some pages had been torn off a wirebound pad. I assume he was using drawing paper.

So I acquired a biggish pad of inexpensive watercolor paper and a biggish pad of mixed media drawing paper.

Filled this page, working from the ref photo below. It's not a great photo but for some reason I'm drawn to it.