Blind Contour Friday 26 - eat a banana

Another older blind contour drawing, this one from August of 2004. At one point in drawing people on the subway I decided to get away from trying to be exact and move more towards... something else... and blind contour was a part of that. I was so happy to discover Niff and Sutter's Blind Contour Fridays, and find people wilfully posting their blind contour work. It's just so liberating in so many ways.

This week I've been busy finishing up DTM and sending it to the printer, with issue #14. I had taken a break from the schedule, but I'm hoping to get back on track this year, striking more of a balance.

Blind Contour Friday 25 - the brush pen

Another Blind Contour Friday submission (see Inkfinger for the whole list), this time with a brush pen. These are two women who sat in front and across from me, in the single-person seats along the left side of the bus.



Another person sitting further along, I liked the feel of texture in the brush. I know, brush is cheating at blind contour, but what the heck.



Finally, I spotted this person sitting on the right of the bus, and turning his head to the right to see out the front. I was most intereseted in the hat (more tassles, yes) and was really digging the whole touque, only to realize, after I was done that the brush did not touch the page duing that time! Well.. it would have been awsome!

but come ye back

Blind contour of a fidgety man waiting on a street corner, Yonge and Eglinton.

Blind Contour Friday 24 - the reading man

A blind contour sketch from earlier this year - March 29th actually.

The crazy dirt

I love my daughter's art, it's so vivid and full of life. I really like her choice of colour - I'm jealous because I have no colour sense at all. Hence the white homepage. Nevertheless, I asked Leah who this was a painting of (above) and she answered, promptly, it is a painting of "a human." Of course!


This is one of my absolute favourites of her's. It's "A tree in the crazy dirt". And I can see it, too. You totally rock, Leah.

[addendum -- I had originally put the crazy earth, but Leah's since corrected me: really the crazy dirt. Sorry, hon.]

Blind Contour Friday 23 - Leah's boots

My daughter's boots, lying off the mat and on our wood floor. Hmm -- I must talk to her about this. After the blind contour of course.
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Not many updates from me this week - sorry... I'm on vacation and barely going outside, let alone riding the subway. I have been doing some 'back-posting' though... I post by drawing date rather than the date I post, doing a bit of filling in.