Day two hundred and one: Today I saw a drawing titled Haystacks by Vincent van Gogh. I am so accustomed to seeing his paintings, that I was surprised to see something clearly by his hand, but without the vibrant color. In the 1888 original, van Gogh used reed pen, quill and ink, over graphite. I used a digital drawing pad to try and emulate the subtle and beautiful variation in tone produced by all the lines and dots. I would bet that my sketch has less than half the dashes and points and splotches that van Gogh made, and I must admit that I cheated by adding broad swatches of tone on a lower layer, and smoothed it out with “water.”
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