Sketches and Studies and Drawings

Drawing exclusively from life, Fetsum has amassed a collection of sketchbooks filled with still life, portraiture studies, notes, figure drawings, and portraits. The sketchbooks themselves feel as personal as journals: the margins are packed with handwriting and the drawings show constant exploration.  Some of my sketchbook drawings are worked to a flawless finish, while others are abandoned or covered over, while others are full mini-scale original on oil paint studies of paintings that I have proceeded to paint to completion  — the sincerity of purpose, however, is evident on every page.