Gewelf en een kerkraam 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this drawing of a vault and a church window with pencil. The paper looks smooth, like he was able to drag the graphite across it with ease. See how the lines feather out? Maybe the pencil point wasn't super sharp, or maybe he was using the side of the lead. I wonder if he smudged it a little to get that shadow effect. You can almost imagine Lion Cachet in the church, feeling the hugeness of the space and the light filtering in through the stained glass. Did he think about how to convey this onto the page? That kind of sketching, looking and editing and looking again – it’s something artists have always done and is still going on. We're all constantly riffing off each other, picking up ideas, and remixing them in our own way.