Sketches
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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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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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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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Morning Montage
A mixture this morning, the world floated by. I’m cheating here, I like to date my posts by the date of the sketch rather than when I post it… I’m posting this sketch on Dec 31st.
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Blind contour subway profile
A (mostly!) blind contour drawing of an unsuspecting fellow subway patron. I liked this drawing because it was a line drawing that seemed to show volume for one on the first times.
