Seeking a Likeness: More Sketches of Richard

Left: A 9 x 12 inch page in a Strathmore 500 series Mixed Media Journal. Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and Montana Markers. If you hold your hand over the forehead this one actually looks like Dick!

I have continued to sketch Dick through the fall and into the winter, usually when he is watching TV. You can see some of these if you click on the category "Richard." Others were posted before I started that category, so you'll have to poke around for them a bit using the blog's search engine.

In the meantime I've been thinking about what it means to capture a likeness and what it is to fall in love with a line and how the two can be mutually exclusive. I haven't come to a lot of conclusions yet, but will have some thoughts to share with you eventually—but not today.

Left: Another 9 x 12 inch page in a Strathmore 500 series Mixed Media Journal. Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and light washes of Schmincke gouache. The ears work pretty well here. The glasses gum it up (as if the eyebrows weren't enough to contend with).

Last week was hit with a creeping cold—everything from Tuesday through Friday seemed "off" but "maybe the obvious isn't happening." Saturday I was officially under the weather and Sunday I had a fever or 102 and chills and watched 2 movies and several episodes of various TV shows and couldn't tell you one thing about any of them as I was too out of it.

So let's just say my brain is a little too taxed to write about a subject I've been mulling over for a long time. But here today are two sketches I did in October that I'm glad I did because they have pushed me along the path to understanding all of Dick's angles. I'll get there, and enjoy each stop on the way, though serious study will have to wait until this cold is history.