Silliness

 Cartoon Jenny as she makes macaroni

 Cartoon Joey and Laurence

 I drew Miss Melanie, the lovely light board op, in my little denim notebook.

 Understudy Jim Porterfield in the green room

Some unsuspecting patrons, drawn from afar as I watch from the booth.

Graphite on various types of paper

January-February 2011

As I work during Corktown every night, sometimes I stealthily draw the people I work with as they sit, unsuspecting...some cartoon-y versions of the characters onstage...and also whatever random things wander through my head...so here is some of that silliness.

Corktown

 Stacie is wrapped into a painter's tarp and is placed onstage for the first twenty minutes of the show. Wrapping the "cannoli" refers to Stacie when she's wrapped in the tarp.

Graphite in sketchbooks, cue sheets, and scrap paper

So...I've been spending plenty of time with the production of Corktown at the Purple Rose these days...in preview, in performance, you name it. I get to see the show every single time we do it, and that has lead to these drawings that I have made during the show, basically on whatever type of paper I can get my hands on in the booth. Enjoy!

Mark

 Brush pens on paper
January 2011

Helloooooo! So...it has been quite awhile since I've set my pen into this virtual inkwell, so to speak...the culprit is the general busy-ness of my life here in Chelsea, MI. Here I present to you some sketches of the loverly Mark Mirasol, made with my new brush pen (when I get inordinately excited about new drawing materials I know that I shall have a long and storied relationship with the material...brush pens are super exciting!! They're like a portable, super convenient inkwell and brush...). I was in a drawing frame of mind while talking with Mark on skype (he was tired and also wearing a turban to dry his hair). Drawing from skype was like drawing in a secondhand way from life. I love the experience of getting to know a drawing subject through drawing it from life, from within the same environment. I can see the definite merits of using photographs for reference, though...they are certainly sometimes more convenient and time-effective. Anyways, skype is a weird in between space in which your subject is there to move around and show you different angles, but the image is still flat. I like pieces of these drawings; some of them seem a little weird, but I learn as a draw more and more. Anyways, in a nutshell, here's Mark!! With brush pens! Huzzah for the return of the blog!