Wallpaper Words

When you're sketching someone REALLY interesting

Sometimes I’m sketching someone who is talking and I’m fascinated by what they’re saying, so I write out the words behind them.

In this case I went to a talk by a remarkable Hudson River gentleman named Bronson Chanler. I would pause from sketching his profile to write the words so that the reader could get a sense of the hair-raising story he was tellin…