Urban Sketchers

 I just love the sketches Susan K. does from photographs. And so I had this idea of her doing some sketches from John's photos. She had been sketching trucks and John has a series of photos of cars he photographed around Vancouver while he was working as a newspaper photographer. As always, he captures pretty interesting stuff so I was pretty sure Susan would find something that would capture her imagination....and she did!

Great photographs and great sketches. 

From Susan's blog:

I couldn't resist a photo with a car and a shopping cart.  It turned out that the bucket was pretty fun too.

My friend Janice found the photo for me.  Her cousin, John Denniston, is a retired newspaper photographer, and still loves to take pictures.   He did an entire project devoted to cars, and you can find them on his website here.  

If John isn't too appalled I'll do a few more.

This was inspired by another of John Denniston's photos from The Car Project.

When Janice sent me the link to her cousin's website, she said she would be interested to see which photos  I would choose to draw from.

This one had me at the car, but the Midas sign was definitely a contributing factor.  Thanks, Janice!

Back to my blog:

I just loved this photo John posted yesterday. Maybe Susan will be tempted.

September 1, 1996 — Every once in a while I search through my negative files looking for pictures I’ve missed, like this one of Greg Moore two wheeling it over a curb during an IndyCar race at False Creek. This leads to finding more pictures that I never printed, again from the IndyCar races, which can be seen HERE or by clicking on the picture above. Michael Jourdain Jr is the driver in front of Greg.

Updated: September 3, 2021 — 10:02 pm