Sketching outdoors is the foundation of Kondos’ landscape
paintings. Everywhere he goes, his sketchbook is his trusted
companion. And the studio adjacent to his home is always jammed
with small pastel, pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches done on his
painting trips. “Drawing is the skeleton under the flesh of a
painting,” he says. “It is where art begins. Drawing helps me to
understand the landscape better, and it doesn’t allow me the
luxury of covering up problems in the composition with color.”