Sketches
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Blind Contour First Friday #2
Niff and Sutter’s second ‘Blind Contour First Friday’. It was supposed to be ‘Out the Window’ this month but instead you have the woman reading the paper in front of me. Must go to work now, I’m late!! Ah!
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Blind Contour First Friday 1 — Thank God I’m a country boy
Niff and Sutter’s first ‘Blind Contour First Friday’. It was moved from a weekly to a monthly format because it seemed too hard to keep up for many people. This month’s installment has a theme: HOT. Above, I give you our stove with one pot, one griddle, and one frypan on top. Not exactly a…
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Belated tag
Kim tagged me oh so long ago. I’m sorry, Kim. I now answer 4 things, 4 things, 4 things, 4 things… 4 jobs I have had-Fred Flintstone at Canada’s Wonderland-Wendy’s fry cook (aka ‘grill’)-Pelecan Players community theatre actor-Drapery Installer 4 Movies I can watch over and over-Apocalyse Now (see Wendy’s reference, above)-Chinatown-A Christmas Carol (Alistair…
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the reading rainbow
First a blind contour of the gentleman reading. Then a more detailed study. Fortunately our subject today was engrossed in his book.
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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…
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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…
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but come ye back
Blind contour of a fidgety man waiting on a street corner, Yonge and Eglinton.
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Blind Contour Friday 24 – the reading man
A blind contour sketch from earlier this year – March 29th actually.
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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…
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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. Visit the wonderful Inkfinger to see them all. Not many updates from me this week – sorry… I’m on vacation and barely going outside, let alone riding the…
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Blind Contour Friday 22 – the travelling arm
Well, this poor gentleman sitting in front of me (above), a robust freshman on his way to what I think is a kind of college for gym teachers, was my subject for Blind Contour Friday. Him and the tassle in his hat. Not a good morning, his jacket collar turned into the mouth of an…
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Dreaming
This is also my Blind Contour Friday contribution — the minivan above was a blind contour I drew waiting for the bus to work, at Finch Station. The women below it I drew later on the bus, but not as a blind contour. Looking at the page later it seemed to me they were collectively…
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