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Surgery to remove kidney stones kept me from traveling to Italy with my wife. So it has been me alone to warm and miss the bedsheets. This coming Wednesday she returns and a good case of jet lag should mean I will capture her recharging her batteries and catching up on dream time.
Drawn with an Essentio fountain pen, DeAtramentis Document ink, and Pitt Artist Pens on Japanese mulberry paper in a sketchbook handmade by Eugene Wooddell Jr.

After glimpsing the Dali exhibit thru slow moving packed lines at the Art Institute of Chicago, I skipped across Michigan Ave to draw in the calm lobby of the Chicago Athletic Association.
I got much of this fellow and some of the background knocked in and was working on the tabletop reflection when he left. So, as I had most the the structural elements behind him in place it made it easy for me to put the finishing touches in.
Now, as to this WordPress platform, I’m quite frustrated with trying to upload images from my picture library only to have the image dropped. So I begin again, wait a couple minutes and it’s dropped again. After two more attempts, same thing. Ticked off so I logged off my blog. I open it up today to see if I have more luck and behold! …. the very image is now in my WordPress library, which allowed me to post today. This image is in fact in Quadruplicate. Wasn’t there at all when I tried to post before!!!! Why??!!!

Pitt Artist Pens on Tomoe River Paper.

1.  Had a fun time out with the Every Other Sunday drawing group today. We went to the Chicago Cultural Center and focused on The newly restored hall and rotunda, originally designed by Shepley Rutan and Coolidge; the 15.4 million dollar renovation was lead by Gunny Harboe
   WHY: A prime example of superior architectural ornament, the space is loaded with meaning. Additionally, some of the work was restored using photos of the original and creating 3-d printed copies!
   I’ve often preferred to hang in the fabulous South Hall so today I was fired up to give the north hall it’s due.

 
Fountain pen, DeAtramentis Document Brown ink, Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens on Tomoe River Paper.

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The finished first drawing at the Every Other Sunday sketch meetup in the West Fulton Market. Took a bit of a cluttered view. Lots of repetition with bottles and tiles but also a nice stacking center as one looks past the barfly to the food court beyond. The second sketch was to my right of the accompanying architects dramatically backlit by the afternoon sun. Fountain pen and Pitt Artist Pens on Tomoe River Paper.

 
Now I’m not sure of the source of this eye gouging coat, but I was sketching someone else when I happened to turn and see her wrapped like a chevroned cocoon. Jumped subject’s immediately and drew what just might have been the striped tail from a very, very large Coatimundi.
Fountain pen and Pitt Artist Pens on Tomoe River Paper.