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Silverpoint drawing was a common medieval technique for drawing in illuminated manuscripts. Using a stylus of soft metal, the artist makes marks on parchment or a clay coated surface. The silver deposits are soft and subtle but oxidize and darken with time.

Jeremy Brett, silverpoint on gessoed panel. (2025)

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Sometimes I start a drawing and it takes the wheel and suddenly we're going to a dark place I was not expecting to visit on a Tuesday night.

Lucid Dream (Bethesda)

Charcoal on paper, 12 x 16 inches

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Tiny mushroom party from my sketchbook.

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My journal, a drawing of an owl skull (with Victorian specs added for whimsy), and some books for the autumn months ahead.

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This is the view from my art studio desk chair. I love it like a sacred space.

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Sketchbook study: Elk eyes.

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Holmes, deep in study.

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Sunlight pouring across your skin, your shadow

flat on the wall.

The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.

You had not expected this,

the bedroom gone white, the astronomical light

pummeling you in a stream of fists.

You raised your hand to your face as if

to hide it, the pink fingers gone gold as the light

streamed straight to the bone,

as if you were the small room closed in glass

with every speck of dust illuminated.

The light is no mystery,

the mystery is that there is something to keep the light

from passing through.

- "Visible World" by Richard Siken

Drawing by A.M. Downs, charcoal on paper