Skitse af bygning og løse rids 1906

Niels Larsen Stevns made this sketch of a building with loose lines on a notebook page, and you can almost hear the scratching of the pencil, can't you? The tentative marks, the exploratory quality, it's like watching the artist think. I imagine him hunched over this little notebook, maybe on a train or in a park, quickly trying to capture an idea before it vanishes. There’s a vulnerability to these kinds of sketches, they show the artist in the midst of questioning and discovering. The grid of the page anchors the sketch and provides an underlying structure. I love how the lines intersect and overlap, creating a sense of depth and movement. They remind me that painting, like drawing, is about seeing and feeling, about translating the world onto a surface with all its messy, unresolved energy. It's like a conversation with yourself. Artists are always talking to each other this way, across time and space. These artworks spark an energy and become fuel for new ideas.