Went to see the Watteau drawings at the Royal Academy this afternoon.

Such economy of line to evoke posture and clothing. They're quite small too, so how did he make such fine work with chalk? Interesting to read how he used firstly red chalk, then later added black and white chalk.The results seem to produce blues and greens as well...not sure how.

Also at the RA was a small room of  Frank Bowling works on paper.

How colourful is that? And he works in acrylics. Interesting textures from gel combed out from the centre line. Indeed all these works had a strong central line.