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would anyone be interested in a book of my sketches from maybe the last 5 years?

Cy Twombly

Vampyr 1931

Mark Rothko, Untitled Gray Paintings,1969

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Updated

10 years a ago I first posted a set of gray paintings on paper. They seemed like a set to me and I thought they looked interesting that way. This not a set prescribed by Rothko it’s more that they lacked fields of very dense brown or black and were not colorful works. They are primarily gray.

Over the years more paintings were photographed and some of the better scans showed more color in some of them than we thought at first, which is just to say that other paintings could go here, but I deemed them better in a different category.

It’s also true that some of these have other scans on the blog, some arguably better but those are up different places, usually in their own single painting posts.

While darker or lighter contrasts have come from new pictures, these seem to have a lightness about them that some of the brown and gray series do not. It’s quite likely Rothko’s early affection for watercolor that makes them so light and fluid.