To make up for last week, today’s post will be a very special one: a whopping 5 pages of double spreads from the sketchbook I bought a few days ago. I’ve been filling it up at a pretty quick pace, working exclusively with freehand line drawings done in “Ultra-Fine” point black Sharpie (I put that in quotes because really it’s closer to a 0.8, maybe even 1.0 mm diameter point… hardly “ultra-fine” by Micron standards, but I’m reveling in it nonetheless). The sketches are all from Northfield, mostly outdoor urban scenes:

These first two were drawn on Saturday in Bridge Square in downtown Northfield.

This is the only indoor sketch so far, from Lisa’s apartment yesterday while we were watching 10 Things I Hate About You on TV. That’s Heath Ledger chatting it up with Julia Stiles on the screen.

I drew this earlier this morning from inside Goodbye Blue Monday Coffee House in Northfield. It’s a view of the building and trees across the street, and also a car.

I drew this just earlier this afternoon, in Bridge Square again. There’s a popcorn wagon that’s open often but not always. But it’s always a special treat when it’s open. I got a root beer from the stand once I had finished this drawing and talked with the woman on the left and man in the wagon (in the sketch, I mean) about Northfield and art.