Drawing Pastel on Nepal Paper by Bob Meyer: She Sleeps in Nantes, Framed

She sleeps. Everything else in the room will have to keep its voice down.

She Sleeps in Nantes is a framed drawing by Bob Meyer, from France, made about 2015. It is pastel on Nepal paper, a handmade sheet with soft, uneven edges. Artists choose pastel for figure studies because it draws and colors at once, and such works are made for private walls. A pale, mask-like face lies in profile with eyes closed, and a patched ochre arm crosses a body wrapped in green and white strokes. The grey-green paper is left mostly bare around her. An ornate silver frame and wide mat surround it all. The image is just over thirty inches wide, the frame forty-eight.

Nantes carries on without her.