This sketch is the one hundred and twelfth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…
Day one hundred and twelve: Browsing through photos this evening, I came across one I took in Venice last November of a palazzo at night. When I saw the building in dim light with a faint reflection in the still canal I immediately remembered James McNeill Whistler’s etching of a similar subject. It was clear to me that Whistler’s print was an attempt to capture the mysterious aesthetic of Venice at night, when buildings seem to float like ghosts, hovering between the deep, endless blacks of the water and the sky.
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