Maria, portrait, May 2020, by William Eaton

New work, finally!

It’s not that during the pandemic I haven’t been making art. Quite the opposite. Painting, painting, painting! And just now…

What's not to like (question mark), pen & watercolor, by William Eaton, April 2020

Nudes

Ah nudes. Here shown are a few of the drawings and paintings of nudes that William Eaton has been working…

After Van Gogh (self-portrait) & Ingres (Portrait de monsieur Bertin), reed pen drawings by William Eaton

Van Gogh & Ingres

One looks at Ingres’s “Portrait de monsieur Bertin” long enough, and one begins to think this is Ingres himself. As for the Van Gogh (indeed a self-portrait), odd that this great colorist has so encouraged my work with reed pens.

Nude modeling (young woman), charcoal drawing by William Eaton

Charcoal drawing of a large-eyed young woman, hands crossed over her chest—the end of a long night of modeling?