Untitled
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This sketch shows a quiet riverbank with bare trees and tangled branches. The water is rough, reflecting light in small patches. In the distance, a hillside rises, covered in dark, scruffy bushes. The artist used lots of thin, crisscrossed lines to build up shadow and texture—it looks like they scratched or pressed hard into the paper. Check out cross-hatching to see how this technique works.
