Sketchbook

For family reasons, I'm out of the country without access to a scanner. So I've put together a rather shaky flickr set of photos from my iPhone of a sketchbook that I started here. I wish I could say that I drew something in it everyday, not simply out of pride, but because my life has been immeasurably better on those occasions when I have managed to set aside a little time every day to draw something.

Here is the cover photo:



And this link produces a slideshow (I hope - I still haven't figured out how to embed this properly):



By way of explanation of the odd, disparate things in this: A bald caricature of Neil Gaiman for a post that maybe I'll put up one day; my son's birthday list; attempts at sketching during the American presidential debates; a list of French vocabulary from reading 'Contes Cruels' by Villiers de l'Isle Adam; various animal sketches requested by my children; a series of sketches responding to an amazing set of photographs of would-be weathermen (and women); copies of portraits of Verlaine and Rimbaud as preparation for a set of blog posts that may one day manifest in the form of readings of French poetry / English responses to French poetry accompanied by pictures. And so on. I've left in the pages scribbled on by my children, because it's a working document.