Ontwerpen voor een buffetwand c. 1905 - 1910

This page of sketches for a buffet wall was made by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet; it's undated, but it lives at the Rijksmuseum. Looking at the page, I imagine him, pencil in hand, trying to figure it out. The ghostly marks, the corrections, the math. I feel like I'm in the studio with him as he figures it out. I like the fact that it's not a pristine rendering, but all these marks show his thinking. I love seeing other artists' process work. It's like overhearing gossip. You get a sense of how the sausage is made. The buffet plan here could be a painting, in some ways. The shapes, the lines, the tones. It's got a great all-over quality. Looking at this reminds me of the conversations I have with other painters. The kind of stuff we talk about late at night over beers. What works, what doesn't, and what's next.