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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.

Been traveling a bunch lately and adding some from here, some from there as I sit at the airport gate. Four different airports comprise this sketch.

Pitt Artist Pens on a homemade sketchbook using mulberry paper.

 
Printers Row Lit Fest Chicago was this weekend. The woman in red dress and backpack was checking out some of the rappers Saturday. Sunday, G Babe and I caught three lectures.
Kevin Boyle talked with Elizabeth Taylor about his book “The Shattering: America in the Sixties”.
Next up we heard Sherman ‘Dilla’ Thomas and Chicago Sun-Times journalist Neil Steinberg, ‘Every Goddamn Day’ talk about Chicago’s sordid, colorful, corrupt, influential, and important history.
The third lecture, ‘The Insidiousness of Hatred” featured writers Adam Langer and Jerry Stahl.

 
After months of notifications and raising funds, the project to clean the water, deepen North Pond and redesign and redevelop the banks has begun. First image shows the bottom being dredged.


The underbrush and waterlogged trees are being removed, debris is being dredged, the depth of the pond is increased to 8’ in the center.
Below are images before the project got underway.

Drawn on Clairefontaine paper, in Rhodia sketchbooks and the toned Stillman & Birn Nova Series sketchbooks with fountain pen, Platinum Carbon Ink, DeAtramentis Document brown ink, and Pitt Artist Pens.

The month’s gathering of head studies. So, what DO you call a bunch of noggins?
A bushel??
Fountain pen and Pitt Artist Pens on a #Rhodia Dot Grid notebook. #uskchicago