Checks found, markers tested

[avram]

OK, crisis averted, the checks turned up in Brooklyn. It cost me six bucks and a couple hours of travel time to find this out, and I’m an idiot for not having taken them any of the last three or four times I was over there, but at least I can pay rent and bills now, and I picked up my portable CD player and some more art supplies. This is my last pad of checks, so it’s time to order a set with my new address on ’em.

Stopped off at Christie’s bakery for one of the best Jamaican beef patties in the city (one of the things I really miss about my old neighborhood, though I guess it’s just as well for my waistline). Back near Union Square I picked up a pair of one-pound dumbbells at Omni Fitness, and an Extra Black Pantone Tria marker. Stopped off at a Starbucks for a mocha and some sketching; turns out the Tria ink soaks through even the thick paper in my Moleskine sketchbook. Grumble. I reverted to using my Pigma Micron super-finepoint, and then (since I’ve been meaning to push myself into using bolder lines) the brush end of my Staedtler Mars Graphic 3000 Duo, which works pretty darn well. The old man was done with the Duo (and yeah, his nose really did look like that, how could I not draw him?), the woman with the Duo and the Micron (except her glasses, which were done with the Tria).