"Sketching, A Part Of Your Nutritious Breakfast!"

Breakfast… the Aftermath!

A friend asked me why I don't sketch a full plate of food, and only sketch the damage done in the aftermath. Of course, the answer is basically because I'm hungry, and the food would be, if nothing else, cold, by the time I finish sketching it.

You'll notice that in the sketch, I still have a full cup of coffee. It is one of the things I love about a restaurant like,"Coffee Rani". The coffee is very New Orleans and comes in a variety of brews to satisfy most picky coffee drinkers, and although the waitresses don't usually come by to fill your cup, you can walk up to the counter and order as many refills as you bladder can handle.

I am kind of in a rut with my menu choices for breakfast because their veggie omelet is not only incredible, but it is incredible at a great price. Good stuff…

… and a good breakfast promotes great results in one's sketching ability, dont'cha agree, ha!

Copyright 2014/Ben Bensen III

"Happy 90th Birthday, Mom!"

• I've done about 7 or 8 portraits of mom. But, she likes this one best. I believe it is because it captures that," you rascal you" attitude she espouses. I don't remember, but I think I sketched this from a cellphone photo that I took while eating Chinese at a local restaurant in Gentilly. Classic New Orleans... It Ain't Dere No More! 
•   I do remember that she was angry because I took her to John Jay's Salon where they charged a  'Benjamin" to give her a "new look!" Nothing I could say, no compliment I could give to  assuage her anger...
•  Except dinner at a restaurant somewhere! 
•  Happy 90th Birthday, Mom!

Copyright 2014/Ben Bensen III

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"An Agrarian Sketch"...

A Harvester?

I have done sketches of people in the restaurant eating, chewing the fat, and hanging out. But, as some sort of ode to the farm world, the good natured, laconic Greek, has a couple of old rusted plowboy "objects d'art" situated as accent pieces around the premises. This is another of Gus's ode to something agrarianly artistic, but, generally, these "antiques" are mostly ignored, mainly because so many of these farms tools are so plentiful around here!

I drew this sketch, like I did with the other "ode," see the post at: 
 http://sketchiethoughts.blogspot.com/2014/09/guss-ode-to-farmtool.html  
seated in my car in the restaurant parking lot listening the Dan Patrick program on sportstalk radio after a long breakfast. 

I'm pretty happy with those wheels. I feel once I've decided what the degree the ellipse is in, I try not to pay attention to the subject matter until I complete it. It seems to come out much better than if I actually attempted to draw it from sight.

 I believe this to be another horse drawn harvester, of sorts. It seems like another very ineffectual way of gathering anything and the metal seat has got to chafe, ha!

Copyright 2014/Ben Bensen III