I wish I could draw like Kate Beaton. It’s a deceptively simple, sketchy style that encompasses a whole range of facial expressions and body language. When you think about what’s going on there its two things that are not easy: having a repertoire of different ways of drawing people (including costumes and hairstyles) and knowing… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: July 2010
I always get this…
YOU ARE MR PEANUT Jovial. Well Dressed. Shill in Shell. Monocular. Urbanity masking a rural origin, The combination of Mind and Body, A hard exterior with spats but the interior can be made into butter. Mr Peanut symbolizes all country bumpkins who arrive in big cities and rise to the heights of society by cultivating… Continue Reading
Visitor…
R’s been visiting and we’ve been prowling the city as much as the weather permits, which hasn’t been much. Still it’s very nice to be able to host in the newly cleared apartment. I’m hoping to have more friends over soon. Tags: daily photo, friends… Continue Reading
Thursday through a lens…
Working. Drawing. Presentation was meh. But I have a visitor and that is a very good thing. Stew on the hob, CDs being ripped into my hard drive. Mostly the stuff I use for DJing. Reading blogs and trying to avoid browse holes. I feel like I’ve been absorbing “news” all day and yet can’t… Continue Reading
Numbers are hard…
So that big meeting that I’m supposed to make a presentation at? The one that’s scheduled for eight am on the eighth? The one that I stumbled out of bed in a panic to get to? IT’S SCHEDULED FOR EIGHT AM ON THE EIGHTH. Not the seventh, as today happens to be. Tags: daily photo,… Continue Reading
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Away for the next weekend. Hoping for some real vacation. Tags: daily photo, travel… Continue Reading
Playtime…
There was poker at O and S’s place last night, a table with many players and higher stakes from which I extracted myself with fairly minor bruises. I won a couple of hands and early on and didn’t slide too far in the the latter rounds. There was good food, good companionship and the shocking… Continue Reading