Nature Sketch

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Beautiful day on Campus. Took the class out to do a studies of foliage and/or buildings. This is a small clutch of contrived nature near St. Thomas Moore Church (behind in fact). The drawing is largish, at 18x20 and made in about 40 minutes. Tried to make each mark count in the time available. I enjoyed drawing this quite a bit. Many of the students commended themselves well. Wish I had a camera to document those graphic essays. Got out later to the Rockaway Artist's Alliance and made these two sketches of Elgin Bolling. Elgin was giving a talk on caricature. These sketches were done with a pentel brush pen. The pen is kind of ingenious, it features and actual brush to deliver the ink. Elgin didn't--in fact--pose for the drawings, they are in "courtroom sketch" mode.
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