back  next  St. Ann © 1989 Tom Ferguson  done back to back with St. Mark after scrounging masonite drawing boards from a defunct drafting course in Dublin, GA while doing a residency there. I was getting interested now in thinned down paint, looking for a smooth surface to reproduce that effect I got on glossy illustration board (cleaning a brush). The character came from noticing people returning glassy-eyed for seconds & thirds at an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord there. Used her again later in a full-figure painting called The Street. Once I saw scratches in a Rembrandt, obviously from the end of his brush, I knew it was all right.
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