I've been thinking about why silk is so difficult to draw. Most fabrics reveal their form first and their light second — a fold announces itself, and the shading follows. Silk does the opposite. It shows you light before it shows you shape, and if you don't understand that order, nothing you draw on top…

Recently, I was sorting all things in my dad's old apartment and found his old camera and an envelope full of films. It is easiest to see in person, less so in a photograph, which is part of why I keep a swatch pinned above the table rather than working only from reference images. The…

This one has been sitting in a notebook for months, waiting for an unhurried afternoon. For years I drew silk the way I drew cotton: contour first, shading after. It never worked. The fabric always looked stiff, like linen pretending to be something softer. It wasn't until I stopped trying to draw the folds and…