After a tiring day of helping Joan put up Halloween decorations and recovering (still) from my thrown-out back, I started to sketch another Buddha — coming down to the home stretch on that series — when I turned around and saw the entire family reading quietly in our bed. The Buddha picture wasn’t coming out that well, and this looked more interesting anyway, so I started on the right side, making my way over left. Unfortunately the youngest one nodded off before I got to her. The girl’s are reading novels and the boy is reading a comic book.
The local elementary school was having a car wash fund-raiser. My car was the last one they let in (whew!). All the kids were swarming around it trying to get it done so they could go home. Of course a water fight broke out when they were done, with much screaming and giggling. My car hadn’t been washed since the Big Sur campout nearly two months ago! A well needed cleaning. They worked so fast I hardly had time to sketch them.
My back went out Saturday (ouch!), and is only slowly getting better. Luckily the work deadline was met, but now I’m on my back in bed for the second day in a row. I think I’m driving my wife crazy, not being able to do my usual chores though. This sketch was funny – a drawing within a drawing within a drawing… ha.
This one sits on top of the roll-top desk. You’ll notice the Halloween decorations – getting to be that time of year. I’m working from home today (still in deadline mode), took a 15 minute break for lunch and sketched a Buddha!
Work has been intense this week with a big deadline, so I’ve been doing close to no sketching. I just went across the street to get some take-out lunch and sketched this gentleman while I waited for them to bring me the food. Seems like most of the time I’ll bring the sketchbook and not use it; I’m trying to break that habit and force myself to draw even if I don’t feel like it.
Anthony Zierhut 