The Fall returns and so too does my annual early morning trek to Chicago’s Palette & Chisel Art Center for their 12 hour life drawing marathon. Even though I’m 35 years away from the last time I had to obey the seasonal call to the classroom and the Monday morning blues, I still like to begin the academic calendar year in auspicious fashion. Hence I rise at dawn to capture on paper, the daylong writhing and heroic posturing of half a dozen models, some of whom I’ve drawn for more than 6-7 years.
 
 
 
 
I’ll add more to this post once this toy posing as a computer, aka my iPad, decides to start performing again. After several Time Out Request and endless waits for Updates to kick in, I need a break.
  
 
 
I got in just over 11 hours of drawing on Labor Day. In general, it was a good day tho I had a couple drawings come up short. It’s interesting to me that most activities can wear me out as time runs on but my drawing strengthens the more I put into it. Long days generally invigorate me and I’ve never suffered from “writer’s fatigue”, repetitive motion, or carpal tunnel syndrome.
The day’s gear involved a ledger book, a Rhodia lined journal, some fountain pens, Platinum Carbon ink, and various nibbed Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens in several shades of grey.
Drawing ain’t dead.
Always a joy to see your work! ????
Awesome drawings, Don!
Fantastic drawings as usual! Question for you…you said you were using a Rhodia lined journal…is another name for that the Rhodia webnotebook? Also, when you start a drawing, do you first lightly draw the figure with a light colored marker or something to get your proportions, then go in with pen and darker markers? Hey Thanks Don!
not sure,just a black hard cover book. as for my drawing approach, sometimes I sketch in lightly, other times I draw directly with ink. If you don’t see preliminary line, they ain’t there. Cheers.