Study for a painting
1961
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1961
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This drawing is all swirling lines in red and blue on a light background. The marks overlap in messy loops, some thick and scratchy, others faint. There’s no clear shape or figure—just tangled, uneven strokes filling the whole page. The artist used quick, repeated lines to build up the colors, almost like scribbles. It looks like they were experimenting with how marks could create movement without showing anything real. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how other artists used layered lines.
