Headed out to Garfield Park to meet up with a dozen artists from the Urban Sketchers Chicago crowd. Brought along a cluster of colored Pitt Pens but mostly went with the b/w monochrome. You’ll see evidence of fountain pen there as well (Visconti Rembrandt w/ Platinum Carbon ink).
Glad to see him go, but I’m sure there will be more of the same.
So as our little Pope strolls into the amber light, we wait excitedly to see the fashion distinctions of the next Hoy See. Drawn with reverence in a used Boorum & Pease Co. Â ledger book from 1980 with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens.
Ran about from one cafe to the next over the last 2 days sketching the imbibers. I realized I have been scanning the drawings in at low res so I upped the dpi so you can feel and see the paper’s tooth. I like being able to pick up on the texture of other’s drawings so… Plus, since some of the sketchbooks I’m using soften the edge and bite of the mark, it was necessary to read the character of the interplay between tool and ground. At 75 dpi the marks were looking a bit flaccid. Â Sketching in public, great way to waste a day.
 
 
 
 
Al drawings done on Pentalic Illustrator’s Sketchbook with Pitt Artist Pens.
 
 
 
 
  
Hey, who needs a soap box when you got a beer and a beach chair?! My pal Bob holding the floor over politics, the financial sector, and bigotry lakeside last summer. I’ve had my share of problems with the computer and this website. Lost some images and posts. So, I’m slowly looking to fill in the gaps. I think some of y’all have found the black squares, yes? This ledger book was fun to draw in as it took fountain pen, ball point, and the Pitt Pens beautifully.
Portraiture is tuff enuff and admittedly, I struggle with catching a likeness of the subject at hand. Even when I pose someone, who can hold still, and I have loads of time, I just as often run right into the ditch. I find it amusing that given an unaware subject (save the nudes scattered throughout) who may fidget, and leave at any moment, I have just as much a chance of capturing something essential about that person as I might were I to set up ideal conditions for portraying that sitter  as others might recognize them. So here is a wall of attempts to see what’s recognizable from rear and oblique views, when the person gives me little to work with. Clothing and posture may at times hinder or help convey the personality of the subject.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
These sketches, done in public, often in transit, where drawn on a variety of papers – Utrecht and Cachet toned papers, Clairefontaine, and a preponderance of various ledger books. Michael Kalman has turned me onto the new series of sketchbooks by Stillman & Birn.  Drawn with a variety of inks from several fountain pen inks – Iroshizuku, Platinum Carbon, Noodler’s, Diamine,  Calli, to ballpoint (especially the Bic Bold 1.6mm, also like the Pilot Ageless), gel (Uniball Impact RT)  and rollerball pens. I make heavy use of  Pitt Artist Pens. The fountain pens I enjoy working with are – Pelikan 115, Pelikano Junior, Pelikan M205 Duo, Namiki Vanishing Point, Lamy Studio, Lamy Safari, Graf vov Faber Guilloche, Graf von Faber Classic, Faber-Castell Coconut Ambition. Occasionally I like using a bristle brush pen such as the Pentel and a couple made by Kuretake and Kaimei. Not to be forgotten is my darling little Ugly Duckling, the grease pencil.