Week#24: Sketching with friends

Sketching @  La May's

   This week the highlight of my sketching was to do faster sketches at the car museum. After my sketchbook of sketches went MIA, I decided to do longer (repeat visit)  studies. After a 3 week absence I returned to progress a 12 hour study only to find the cars had been moved. This liberated me to returned to the pace of sketching. I found this ironic after the fact... I had drawn the Crane Simplex (upped drawing) first then found the bird hood ornament 3 sketches later which kinda grew onto the upper page as I went along... pen and ink you don't erase. When I was taking a pic for the blog it occurred to me that the simpler crane was better noted by the hood ornament for the Cadillac limo.

Week #11: The Traveling Artist

   Many people feel that drawing on a regular basis means to commit oneself to locking themselves away in the studio or chaining themselves to the drafting table every day for an hour with a sketchbook. While agreeing upon the investment of time, I find that the hours fly by (and fills "down time") when the sketchbook simply accompanies me wherever I go. Like putting on shoes or carrying glasses, I carry everywhere (at the least) a 6x9 sketchbook that has a pocket to hold a mechanical pencil so it never need sharpening. I am fascinated (and challenged) to see what I can find as the collection of images and pages fill with ease.
    This week took me to a car museum for a friend's birthday outing where I had the opportunity to better appreciate an "Oakland" from the upstairs cafe during a rest break while friends chat and later a "Reo Speedwagon"... which made for a really "good Friday". The ironic thing was Bob Segar was to be performing in concert later that night... from Detroit, the car capital of the nation.