Sunday, November 11, 2007

Priceless Postcard #9

To enter to win this free postcard sketch, just comment then email your delivery address like it says here.

We were flying up to Massachusetts this weekend for a wedding, so I took along a pen and a little pile of postcards-- sorry no ink washes. I've been trying to work out whether I can make engaging compositions out of some of the more chaotic bits of my dog. In this case, I'm trying to see if a picture of Pappy's tail can be anything more than just a loopy, whorly, ambiguous vortex. When we first saw him posted on the adoption site, it was his tail that caught my eye.

Parts of My Dog Sketch 1

7 comments:

Charlie said...

Great one!

Becky said...

love it! looks just like miss mags' tail. when she was a little baby puppy, the pet store where I got her told me she was a "shepherd-akita" mix solely based on the fact that her tail sat up flat on her back (note: I KNOW. pet stores are evil. but I was young and stupid. and she was cute and cost $19).

so this is great.

Nat said...

Okay, I think we have a quorum, so I'm breaking out the coin for a two person runoff. Okay, so looking in this jar, I find a Space Port video game token from decades past. Heads, the Space Money side, is Charlie. Tails is the icon thingy is Becky. And it's up.... it's heads. Congrats to Charlie. Becky, your time will come.

Becky said...

Curse you, Space Port video game token from decades past!

"Sunshine" said...

I would love one if one's still up for grabs!!

"Sunshine"

Charlie said...

Woo hoo!!! I knew all those afternoons in SpacePort at IU would pay off someday!

Nat said...

Charlie,
Check my About link-- I went to IU. I can't swear to it, but I think that token must have come from the Spaceport on the edge of campus. Of course we're talking early 80's.