Diamond_Dog sent me a link to an 1889 van Gogh painting.

[Diamond_Dog]

12. Oh wow. That must have been some experience. I would absolutely love to see his paintings for real.

I would be brought to tears, too.

Right before Covid struck, I went to see a traveling exhibit of Michaelangelo’s drawings and sketches at the Cleveland Museum of Art. On display was the charcoal study he drew of the two hands barely touching in his iconic painting of The Creation of Adam which of course he painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
That found it powerfully moving. I could just imagine the great artist working on that study. It wasn’t very big but oh so powerful. I can’t remember how long I stood there mesmerized by it. He made his own charcoal pencils and many of his sketches were in a reddish brown charcoal.