a whole weekend of tomorrows
i have the weekend all to myself again ~ i could get spoiled! so even though i forgot my zip drive at work and it has my newly hatched bibliography (of seven pages!), and sundry other bits on it, i am content to let the weekend be whatever it will be, hoping to work on a little bit of this and that and see where it all takes me. no pressure.
and thank you, my lovely flist for all of your supportive comments on my posts over the last few days when i was feeling sort of low and kvetchy about the course of things. creative work is love and the course of love never runs smooth (and all that), so it's great to have peeps on the sidelines cheering away. you are all fabulous (really!)
i keep finding doodles in my notes everywhere. this one particularly caught my eye this week. i like it. i like the style of the doodles on the whole ~ they are rather cartoony. i can't draw very good likenesses (it's hard for me), so caricature is easier. dunno how recognizable some of these might be. i found one that was marked "Geissinger" and wondered to myself if i even know what Geissinger* looked like. and as easy as you think it maybe ought to be, i have yet to doodle a picture that looks anything like the tall man in the funny black hat. other characters are much easier for having distinguising traits (noses and hairstyles are the easiest to caricature).
oh! i found a great little source (with a picture!) of Hartranft's 16 year-old fifer/clerk, Alfred Gibson. it's not extensive, but he offers some pretty funny tidbits about his experience at the Arsenal annoying the staff, telling Grant to put out his pipe during the trial, etc. Some great little details. dunno how i had managed to overlook this one before.
always excited to find something new!
more tomorrow (i know you can't wait). meanwhile, i hope everyone is having a great friday night!
: D
* edit: oh duhhh, of course i do (he's the light-haired young guy, standing, fourth from the right). and curiously, the doodle in question (which i am not posting) actually does look like him ~ ha!
and thank you, my lovely flist for all of your supportive comments on my posts over the last few days when i was feeling sort of low and kvetchy about the course of things. creative work is love and the course of love never runs smooth (and all that), so it's great to have peeps on the sidelines cheering away. you are all fabulous (really!)
i keep finding doodles in my notes everywhere. this one particularly caught my eye this week. i like it. i like the style of the doodles on the whole ~ they are rather cartoony. i can't draw very good likenesses (it's hard for me), so caricature is easier. dunno how recognizable some of these might be. i found one that was marked "Geissinger" and wondered to myself if i even know what Geissinger* looked like. and as easy as you think it maybe ought to be, i have yet to doodle a picture that looks anything like the tall man in the funny black hat. other characters are much easier for having distinguising traits (noses and hairstyles are the easiest to caricature).
oh! i found a great little source (with a picture!) of Hartranft's 16 year-old fifer/clerk, Alfred Gibson. it's not extensive, but he offers some pretty funny tidbits about his experience at the Arsenal annoying the staff, telling Grant to put out his pipe during the trial, etc. Some great little details. dunno how i had managed to overlook this one before.
always excited to find something new!
more tomorrow (i know you can't wait). meanwhile, i hope everyone is having a great friday night!
: D
* edit: oh duhhh, of course i do (he's the light-haired young guy, standing, fourth from the right). and curiously, the doodle in question (which i am not posting) actually does look like him ~ ha!
