Day one hundred and ninety-nine: This morning I had to look at a drawing Cézanne made in a sketchbook of Michelangelo’s dying slave at the Louvre. When I say had, I really do mean it was my job to look over this glorious page. (I’m so blessed!) And I thought to myself, “I have a snapshot of that very sculpture on my computer, and I think I should sketch it too. Now I’m no Michelangelo or Cézanne, but I did enjoy pretending to be a famous painter dabbling out ideas in a sketchbook. (P.s. While I had to make separate studies of the head and hand, Cézanne’s is a beautiful sketch of the sculpture in a single attempt.)
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