sketches

This sketch is the one hundred and twentieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…

Day one hundred and twenty: In honor of the last day of “Venice on Paper,” a show of prints and drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, today’s sketch is based on a detail from an etching by D. Y. Cameron. I might have been better off sketching the Doge’s Palace itself instead of a sketching a sketchy etching. Still, it captures a sense of D. Y.’s print, and the exercise, as usual, showed me the true skill of the original artist’s eye and hand.