Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 90

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Howard Skrill writes: The Anna Pierrepont Series, my drawings of public
statuary in NYC, is plein air appropriation. Plein air drawings come into being
through visual encounters with the constant changes of light and color in things
ideally encountered out of doors. I roll a blue whole foods cart behind me,
jammed with a folding chair, pencils, oil and chalk pastels, oil sticks and a pad of
paper. I encounter a statue I wish to draw, unfold my chair, lay out my materials
and struggle to represent the object emerging from the light and shadows of its
surroundings onto a sheet of paper. The drawings are appropriation because the
subjects I invariably select are public monuments created by other artists. In
2014, I began to augment the drawings with pic ܚX[\