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Portrait of Tasha, colored pencils, William Eaton, 2019
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Enuff with the études, dude - 3 watercolors by William Eaton, 2019
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Nude model chillaxing, drawing by William Eaton
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Nude modeling (young woman), charcoal drawing by William Eaton
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Woman outside café, portrait (almost French nineteenth century)by William Eaton
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After Van Gogh (self-portrait) & Ingres (Portrait de monsieur Bertin), reed pen drawings by William Eaton
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Van Gogh & Ingres

Sleeping nude encased in background, gouache painting by William Eaton
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Female nudes, superimposed, drawing by William Eaton
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Woodstock Drumming Circle, non-figurative drawing by William Eaton
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Flowers in glass, learning from the Chinese, painting by William Eaton, Byrdcliffe (photo with pencil)
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Alexis, Jacqueline, Greta, watercolors by William Eaton, 2019
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Charcoal, face behind torso, by William Eaton, Nov 2019
Image of the WeekNovember 30, 2019

Make lines, lots of lines

Nobody can be waiting for the final withering away of all governments, but how about “a rebirth of wonder,” as Lawrence Ferlinghetti proposed in the 1950s? I’m not holding my breath. Faites des lignes, Ingres said, beaucoup de lignes. Make lines, lots of lines.

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On Gauguin being chased from museums, poem and painting by William Eaton, 2019
Expressionism poem with art: Back bend in red and white (with bat or scarab), by William Eaton, 2019
Image of the WeekNovember 8, 2019November 8, 2019

What did you say the subject was – Expressionism?

I think the subject is going to end up being the dog one of the faculty members has brought along. Will he bark? Will he pee?
Talk about Expressionism! Talk about – hey now! hey! – patting the bourgeoisie, . . .

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Boots, yellow crotch, yellow heart - watercolor by William Eaton, 2019
Image of the WeekOctober 27, 2019November 13, 2019

My secret dream of learning how to draw

Some people, much as many artists long ago, first seek to learn some set idea of the basics before they try to make art. But, for one, we don’t know what the “basics” are any more. Perhaps the most basic and hardest thing is learning how to let one’s heart lose on the paper? And how do you learn that?

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Peaches, worked and reworked watercolor by William Eaton, 2019
Image of the WeekSeptember 9, 2019September 9, 2019

If you can’t make my peaches erotic, honey, please . . .

There’s a love or commitment in working and reworking and reworking. And if the finished or abandoned artwork can only reflect some of this love and commitment? Good!

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Steel blue, burgundy, woman - drawing by William Eaton, 2019
Image of the WeekSeptember 2, 2019

From Franz Marc to steel blue, burgundy, woman

A progression, from the Picasso sketches that led to “Les demoiselles d’Avignon,” to Franz Marc’s yellow horses, to an abstracted drawing of a nude female model, done with pastels, water-soluble color sticks and an eraser, in New York, a century later.

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Zombie eyes, self-portrait with poem, William Eaton, 2019
Image of the WeekAugust 16, 2019August 16, 2019

Homme aux yeux mauves

How much of life passes in a dimmer light; / Mid a little bit of hopping, mostly we snore? Image inspired by Picasso’s “Homme au maillot.” As for the poem laid on top—inspired by an aging prostate?

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(Plenty can be found on Montaigbakhtinian.com)

Many these days in three versions or voices (English, French and Spanish). Some quite direct and contemporary in style, and others with roots in traditional light verse. Also a series of limericks, one a day for 155 days, written in the wake of the Chief Tweet’s election.

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