Untitled

About this work

This painting is just brown lines on a brown background. The lines are thin, uneven, and crisscross everywhere—no clear shapes or focus. The whole thing looks like it was drawn by hand, but it’s not a picture of anything real. The artist used pastel on paper that’s been cut with lines before the drawing. That’s why the lines stand out so sharply against the flat color. Next, check out pastel to see how artists use soft chalky sticks to make marks like this.