Day two hundred and sixty-six: I showed dozens of modern prints in the study room today: this morning, Mexican, and in the afternoon Expressionist, mostly German. This sketch is an amalgam of the latter, I think, apparently brewed in of my subconscious mind to be poured out through the Wacom Bamboo. My title, Nachtdame, meaning “night lady” was borrowed from a little lithograph by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), which looks nothing like this queen of the evening. Incidentally, this design was originally inspired by color, but in the end, I thought it worked better in black and white.
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