Thanks, mommy!
December 28th, 2006 by michael
I was rummaging through some files salvaged from the old Kosher Eucharist z”l tonight in order to find an old drawing of mine to show a friend, and it occured to me that perhaps our (admittedly limited) audience would like to see evidence that my artistic bent, such as it is, extends beyond mere crude cartoons. So I decided to upload a drawing onto the blog, and then my dear mother was nice enough to scan for me one of my favorite drawings from my high school days. Enjoy and stuff.
My aunt commissioned me a couple years back to draw portraits of my grandparents when they were young, so that one is of my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, Red Army veteran (on Sakhalin, no less), tinkerer and all-around inspiring guy. He died before I was born, but they say I inherited my looks from him, although as my mother will eagerly tell you, nothing more useful than that.
That’s the aforementioned high school drawing, which I drew from a glossy photo book of people with dreadlocks over the course of a good few 3rd period study halls…the scan is a little wonky, but I think the image comes through well enough. I was constantly drawing in high school, not so much for any particular artistic impulse, but because it got me a lot of attention, and who doesn’t love attention?
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