Nick and Nora

Apparently it's been over two months since I posted anything on here. Oops. The Ely is over and done with. No more sweating over type placement and shards of glass. For anyone who hasn't seen my Ely pieces on my website or at the show, here you go:







And now for something completely different.
I recently (and by recently I mean within the past month) watched the movie The Thin Man and fell completely in love with it. I absolutely adore William Powell and Myrna Loy. They are amazing together. The actual story isn't completely spectacular but the writing and the humor is great and there's rarely a time when one of them doesn't have a drink in their hand. I enjoyed the movie so much that I decided to use it as the basis for one of my self assigned projects. This piece is a little different from the way I've been working. I decided to try using a pencil drawing instead of just the line drawing that i usually do in ink on newsprint. I think the results are different but good. The pencil drawing gave me a chance to put more detail into my drawings while still getting a rough textured look.



For anyone who doesn't know the story, it takes place in the mid 30's. Nick Charles (William Powell) is a retired detective, married to Nora (Myrna Loy) who's very rich. Even though Nick is retired he still takes on cases here and there and together they solve mysteries with their dog Asta.

Here's a video if anyone is interested. I highly recommend the series. So far I've only seen the first two movies but there are six altogether.



Also, you can see a very young Jimmy Stewart in the second movie (After the Thin Man) which makes it totally worth watching.