summer roamings
Here’s my sketch of Saskia, the daughter of Madeline Sorel, who I visited recently while her family was enjoying a stay on the lake in Wolfeboro, NH. We were classmates at RISD and used a bit of our visit to draw together, one of my favorite ways to spend time. It’s been such a hot week, I haven’t accomplished much else. I’m working slowly on sketches for Portland Stage Company, for a poster for next season. It’s fun doing lots of rough ideas but showing a lot of them invariably requires merging two or more favorites. For instance, these are the two roughs in...
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With the pies gone and the turkey slept off, the holiday drill must begin. I had the delicious opportunity to bring my illustration class to a tech rehearsal of Santaland Diaries at Portland Stage Company, which proved to be a perfect segue for the season. It was challenging, to say the least, but put us all in a properly satiric mood. Dustin Tucker plays Crumpet, a disenchanted Macy’s elf. Here is my quick sketch of the stage setting. I told my students beforehand that it would be hard, very hard, to capture a moving target, but this was a chance to strengthen their recall and eye for...
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There’s nothing like an old friend. Here I am with Doug Smith, fellow illustrator, and the first friend in the field. We met at a Graphic Artists Guild event in Boston in 1980, when he gallantly offered the empty seat next to his. It was my first foray into a professional workshop and no small thing to find a friendly face. Now, he is a neighbor on Peaks Island and recently referred me for a very fun project with Portland Stage Company. Doug and I are both illustrating posters for upcoming productions. Mine is The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the drama between...
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