Nicolo
Hard Vine Charcoal on Michelangelo Drawing Paper 20"x 16" 1985 $750
This may have been my fifth or sixth cast drawing. Each one probably took between 70 to 150 hours(!). They were supposed to only take about 30, but I was never able to achieve this economy of effort and time. My early ones took forever, but later ones approached the goal of less than 50 hours. Note the attention to contour line, completely flat shadow (no reflected light) and development of form in the light under the dictum of "Light is the revealer of form. No light, no form."
