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    Layering Thoughts

    Aug 30, 2022 2 minutes
    JEN ROBERTS

    HINTS ABOUT SAM MELÉNDEZ’S process can be gleaned from what’s visible on the artist’s canvases—and what isn’t.

    “I sketch everything with charcoal and make notes to myself on the canvas,” says the 47-year-old self-taught painter. Then, he either develops the idea or simply dusts away the charcoal and moves on.

    This desire to share traces of his progress

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