Playing around with the Tifinagh script this evening (similar to the ancient Berber script) used primary in decorations or in love letters. Thought it would be interesting to turn a word or phrase in a quilt block.
SketchcrawlMo November 22, 2009
I was lucky enough to participate in the Worldwide Sketchcrawl (like a pubcrawl, but with more more hand/eye coordination) this Saturday. The NYC group met in front of the Chelsea Wine Vault at the Chelsea Market at 11 a.m. and, minus a break for lunch at 3 p.m., the last of us drew until 6:30 p.m. We spent the early afternoon on the High Line, then did post-lunch sketching at Chelsea Market (there was string quartet playing and great people watching), and ended the day with a walk to Times Square—stopping on the way to sketch a taco truck on 29th Street.
You can see other New Yorkers’ sketches and photos over at the Sketchcrawl boards. My drawings and links to fellow Sketchcrawlers’ blogs are after the jump…
anywhere but here November 21, 2009
Had a bad attitude when I started the sketch, clearly I was trying to escape my present reality by imagining Italy, or France, or anywhere but here.
stop and smell the iris November 19, 2009
Hmm, do irises have a fragrance or are they all show? After a quick search of wikipedia, I did read that the orris root and sometimes the iris flowers are added to Bombay Gin for flavor and color… maybe I should have said ’stop and brew the iris.’
closer November 18, 2009
I was cleaning off a bulletin board when I came across an old yellow newspaper clipping of the stars from the movie Closer. Time to throw away the clipping but wanted to save the “image”. The rest of the page filled with an aboriginal script I’m working with, Inuktitut.
Didn’t get around to figuring out dinner so, braving the rain and cold, we need to agree on a restaurant and go buy dinner.
