Seaman with Hat (1976)

9x12 sketch -1976

This pencil sketch brings back many memories. The seaman is smoking a pipe from my father’s pipe collection. He is also wearing a hat and jacket my father wore while sketching at the docks in Mystic, Connecticut.

Each person he drew had a unique quality he was drawn to. A beard, eyes, and smile that conveyed joy or sorrow, a hat, pipe, and wrinkled faces that said much without any spoken words. 

 This unusual sketch was drawn using a rust-colored chalk pencil.