Beer Before Liquor ([info]preachertom) wrote in [info]thebabygrind,
@ 2007-09-19 23:17:00
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Sketchbook Day 1


Guh. It is really clear I need this practice. Oh well, time to head back to the rag and bone man of the heart.


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[info]tesseracting
2007-09-20 04:52 am UTC (link)
"rag and bone man"

Thank you for introducing me to this phrase.

It's cool to see other people make notes in their sketchbooks as much as I do.

And the couple reminds me a little of Quentin Blake's style.

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[info]tedprior
2007-09-20 05:18 am UTC (link)
I can see the Quentin Blake, but it really reminds me of Jason Turner's work.

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[info]preachertom
2007-09-20 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Guys, I was just trying to go for another one of my Thurbers. Just a little one. Remember those? Dang.

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[info]preachertom
2007-09-20 03:26 pm UTC (link)
The rag and bone man of the heart bit is from this poem I'm always thinking about whenever I'm trying to dredge up creativity again after a long absence, Yeats' The Circus Animals Desertion because that's exactly what it's about. I actually misquote it a bunch, but the actual line goes:

Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.


As for my sketchbook, it's also my journal. I write down my dreams every morning, my daily to-do list at work, and I work out technical details about how writers put stories together and such.

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[info]tesseracting
2007-09-20 03:46 pm UTC (link)
arg! poetry! I can't escape it!

It is something I'm going to tuck away, though. :)

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[info]preachertom
2007-09-20 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Believe me, I know. Poetry will hunt you down like a dog despite all your efforts to avoid it.

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[info]sirive
2007-09-20 05:08 am UTC (link)
It is good to see you drawing something again Tom.

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[info]preachertom
2007-09-20 03:27 pm UTC (link)
It'll be good to actually be drawing again in a couple of weeks when it's not like picking a scab.

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[info]tiny_monster
2007-09-20 06:08 am UTC (link)
You are the inspiration for all of this! I'm glad you joined in.

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[info]preachertom
2007-09-20 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Of course! Something had to get me off my duff. Thanks so much for setting all this nonsense up!

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