Ring c. 1940

This is a beautiful drawing of a ring by Michael Fenga. Look at how Fenga rendered the ring from different angles, almost like a technical drawing, but softened with a delicate touch. He’s really thinking about the volume and form of the ring, how it sits on the finger. You know, sometimes when I'm trying to figure out a tricky passage in a painting, I walk away from it and try to visualize it from all sides in my head. Maybe Fenga was doing something like that, turning the object over and over in his imagination. I love how the lines are so clean and precise, yet there's a kind of tenderness to them, too. It reminds me that drawing, at its heart, is about seeing and feeling, not just about replicating what’s in front of you. It's all one conversation.