Germany Notebook LNSY It's the stuff I hated when I first was exposed to Tiepolo --- Started drawing w/ a sepia water color. It is retru, but goddamn if it doesn't look good. How to make it my own? --- Quite happy with my progress as far as drawing goes this month, even if I've gone a little retro. Alas, my resistance to tradition proved futile. How to inhabit this, [make] in a way that is my own is the question. But my resistance to this type of drawing -- heavy on the brush, very classical, might simply be resistance to a style, which is all surface. the fact is is that sepia fades into a painting, more than black / grey. That is why the old masters used it -- the eye reads it as neutral. If I want a new art, stealing the old ways and refassioning them is probably something I needed to do anyway. --- Painters form a discreet set of general cultural movement , often inhabit more than one space in the genre. ---