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…when I’m as old as this man, to enjoy life as he does. You can just feel the sun on your own skin.

Original: Mariano Fortuny, Viejo desnudo al sol (Old nude man in the sun), 1801. Oil on canvas, approx 24 x 30″. Permanent collection, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
My drawing: pencil on paper, 6 x 8″.

Right now I am working toward this life goal by spending hours in a museum, drawing and writing and marveling at art; and, at this exact moment, by making the most of the Area de Descanso. Yes, the Prado does have a nap room of sorts: a long, narrow, sun-filled corridor lined on one side with long couches. Ahhhhh.

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