Day one hundred and thirty-four: I had to get something in under the wire tonight, so I grabbed the business card of an artist and mimicked the charcoal style on the back as quickly as possible. Kay Fenton is a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and this sketch imitates a detail of a work that is part of a thesis project I saw on display this afternoon. I really like the way Kay works and reworks the surface of the multiple-sheet images, and so I tried to something similar, but not in exactly the same way. I think the original picture is called “In the Act” or something to that effect, and I believe it to be an abstraction of some figures. What you see here is thus an abstraction of an abstraction: it is not a perfect copy. Kay’s is much subtler and richer overall. I just wanted to capture a sense of the charcoal shapes on the pages, the edges of which I indicated at the center where they come together.
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