Looks Good on Paper by Dan Collins for March 07, 2021

I really like this.

I’ve often seen this tranquil setting in cemeteries.

Looks good on paper – and on my screen, too

Great sketch Dan

Reminds me of my college days. Benches like this one were all over the campus. Great memory.

looks comfy

Kind of a visual pun, in that it can be two different things: A marble bench or a cement bench with a tree shadow across it. Very nice.

I like this, Dan. There is a certain evocative melancholy about it.

Give us more!! My wife is a watercolorist and I really like the sketches she does preparatory to picking up a brush.

Unsmudged pencil shading – tricky.

Love artists’ sketches; they’re immediate, intimate and personal.

Overwhelming sadness

This brought back a memory. In 1962, as a freshman at Cal Berkeley, I saw a bench that said ‘reserved for senior men’. Today it might say ‘reserved for senior students’, or perhaps nothing at all. Today the word ‘senior’ means something a lot different than it did for me while in college. (Oy Vey, my back !!)

This is a very fine one, Dan. Thanks for putting it up.