This drawing is “after” Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). Carracci, however, made his drawing in pen and ink. Mine is conte crayon. Sometimes it’s interesting to copy other artists — especially old dead masters who can’t come after you with accusations of copyright violation. And sometimes it’s fun to really “copy,” trying to get every i dotted and t crossed as best one can manage. I call that aspiring to Xerox machinedom. Or you can alter the copy even as you copy by some method of deliberate interpretation. So in this drawing I chose the conte as a meta-tool to imitate the ink wash drawings that Carracci also made in abundance.
That’s a bit convoluted, so let me redo that: I copied his pen and ink (line drawing) using a soft medium (conte crayon), but I used the conte in a manner to imitate (somewhat) Carracci’s ink and wash techniques (that he used in other drawings).
That would make my copy officially a double whammy. (Or a double header. A double something ….)
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