What Is It to Paint a Saint?
I’ve been doing all kinds of drawings of Mary Magdalene, some just fun line drawings, others more elaborate. Some are really bad! But in reality, when I’m drawing for painting, I like to do the kind of drawing where I look for the right line. Over and over.
This is how I find the harmony that I’m looking for when I paint Mary Magdalene.
In this drawing, I left all the lines that led to the final drawing. It has two noses, two mouths, different eyebrows…
What is it to paint a saint? A being of light? Someone that exists through the imagination? It is to allow the presence to emerge through random traces chosen based on intuition.
These are a lot of words for a little drawing. But not a lot of words for describing how Mary Magdalene inspires my art and my life. She is mostly in the pleasure of the creative moment.
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