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 Seeing a little more of the Palette & Chisel since I’ve been staying in the Chicago area this Winter. Advance notice: The Meat Market will once again  be open to sell sketches, prbably ilater in mid March. 

Going to life drawing means that unlike a great deal of sketching I do out in public, on trains, in cafes, and among people just going about their day; my subject may actually hold still for a known amount of time. That said, I still dig drawing the constantly moving artist, even if their movements are slight and return to a similar position.


  

 

In the cold grey of winter it’s appealing to work from nudes modeling the warm glow of the flesh.

  

Drawn with fountain pen, Platinum Carbon Ink, F-C Pitt Artist Pens on Tomoe River Paper. The last 2 were drawn with graphite. » Continue Reading…

Herman Melville’s great novel Moby Dick was read aloud, chapter by chapter over 24 hours by a host of folks, including the gent you see here knitting a glove, Benjamin Dionysus, at Chicago’s Newberry Library.

The very handsome cover of the novel Moby Dick with Rockwell Kent’s striking wood engraved illustrations.

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