February 18, 1994

When I was in Armen's studio the previous day, he was working on a painting of a brick wall, half in shadow, and I went back this day to check the progress on it. Of all the grad student painters who were there in my years, Armen was the one who used the most traditional oil technique- doing an underpainting, then slowly building up color through a series of delicate glazes. Pretty much everyone else (as did I when I was still painting) took a more modernist approach, painting directly with full color and value. Of course, my woodcut version doesn't do justice to the effect his technique produced, but I still wanted to pay tribute to it.