From Van Gogh letters. . . turns out Van Gogh was a great thumbnail sketcher. See http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/497.htm . He was a great letter writer and talked about his work in depth in letters to friends. See the painting he did from this sketch below. Notice how he made notes about color, texture, etc. to remind him later. You can almost see his sketch strokes from this little drawing.
He later did a painting from all of these sketches which you can see by going to the web link above.
The two pictures above are the sketch and later painting.
Good drawing is always at the base of good painting. Thus, I am challenging myself by taking an online illustration workshop and intensive drawing over the next six weeks!
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