Today’s rhyme, A Robin Redbreast in a Cage, was really easy to visualize, though I ended up overthinking it anyway. First I went on line looking for a visual reference for a European Robin, first because these are English nursery rhymes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well technically Northwest Folklife starts Friday… but since it’s a work day and all I rarely get there before three. Since there aren’t quite as many performers I spend most of my time casing the joint and going over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of these sketches I’ve been trying to do period, not that I know much about 17th century England, but for ones like today’s rhyme, I Had Two Pigeons Bright and Gay, I just couldn’t. I’m perfectly aware that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well my second day of folklife went very well and I was very productive with at least two of these definitely working as grist for the mill of portfolio material. For today at the moment it’s raining. I have been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it was because a slow start today but I couldn’t figure out what the context of today’s rhyme, A Little Man From Derby, could possibly be. Fortunately I had plenty of options in our present context and went with snooty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t sleep well the night before and had someplace I had to be later in the afternoon so I don’t think I was ever in my zone enough to do quite as many sketches Sunday as Saturday but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “Before her Old Grandmother” made little sense to me and I’m pretty sure I misunderstood it completely… frankly I think it’s another orphaned song verse.
I’ll post my final batch of folklife sketches in a bit but I had to show this one by itself because I was really psyched while doing it. The band performing Chaotic Noise Marching Corps had a great anarchic energy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well here’s the last of the this year’s Folklife sketches. It all went pretty well though by the end of the day it was getting a little too crowded for me to stay in my zone… fortunately the brass bands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme “If You’ve a Mole Above Your Chin” is another one that seems to lead itself to very quick cartoons… otherwise you have nothing to work with… After that the only difficult part of this sketch was trying to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
