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“Cold Morning at the Knights Inn” 12-28-08

You can read my notes on the page, really not much to say about this other than it was very cold! My stay in Endicott resulted in one night in a motel with my boys, no room at my dad’s when the family comes to town! The Knights Inn has a very large eating area, it was sooo cold I had to eat with my coat on!

So I occupied myself with my pen and sketchbook, just to practice the angles of the room. I need to get back into the habit of drawing everywhere I go. What’s that you say?….but Mary, it seems you already do!! Well, no, I could be drawing a lot more for practice as you can see in this picture! haha…well, not all are going to be great, you just have to do them, keep your mind and eye working together, like a workout for an athelete. It’s a little more difficult too, to draw with an unforgiving pen, no erasing!

“Waiting in Friendly’s” 12-26-08

I did this sketch obviously while waiting to eat at Friendly’s in Endicott NY. I went to visit my dad and family after Christmas, always taking my sketchbook with me, like a little kid I need to keep occupied! I originally drew this with a pencil and kneaded rubber eraser, hiding it under the table as I drew. I try not to be too obvious when I draw people in public, they can start to feel like you’re staring at them. I try to get the general person sketch in and some lines of the furniture around them, then work on the people leaving furniture for later. You can finish that stuff long after they’re gone.

The pencil got so smeared by the time I got back to Buffalo I had to redraw it quickly in pen. So it looks a bit different, but I should learn my lesson by now, graphite just doesn’t travel well in a sketchbook that gets moved around a lot.