Yeah, I know this photo is out of focus, but I was just learning how to use the camera and how to hold it still. It's a posed shot of my dad sitting at his desk in the den that he and I built in the basement of our house is Nebraska. It was just finished. The machine behind him is an enormous adding machine and next to that is one of my dad's favorite possessions; a Trans-Oceanic radio. We used to try to tune in Russia because we thought it would be cool to listen to stuff we couldn't understand. More often my dad listened to Juarez or Tijuana.
Anyway, my dad's favorite things to wear (got that prompt again when I opened this) were t-shirts and Bermuda shorts. All seasons. Yep. OK, not usually outside, but...
SO for the Facebook group I joined that posts prompts to draw to, no not like a saloon where "That's a pair to draw to" has a completely different meaning, but draw like in draw. The prompt was radio. I decided to use a medium I'm not good at or experienced with and that constantly frustrates me, that is, pastels. I bought a tablet of black drawing paper and I used the first piece. The radio itself is full of tiny details, and I knew with the pastels I wasn't going to get them. Here's my model, straight out of the 1950s. I've decided to keep it in my studio.
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