Fred verkoopt encyclopedieën

An old Fred, as an encyclopedia salesman, in color.

At Work III

Encyclopedieverkoper

Donald Duck IV

A drawing I did a few years ago of Donald Duck and two nephews, Louie and Dewey, or Huey, or who, drawn with Joseph Gillott’s Lithographic Pen 170, Joseph Gillott’s Superfine Long Shoulder Crow Quill 850 and a Pergamano Tracing Pen on papier dessin à grain Clairefontaine 180 g (83 lb) in 136 x 88 mm. The photo in the background is Butterfield House 37, West Twelfth Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, West Twelfth to West Thirteenth Street.

Donald Duck I

A drawing I did some years ago of Donald Duck and Huey, Louie and Dewey, and Uncle Scrooge, on 120 gsm A4 paper, with Joseph Gillott's Lithographic Pen 290, a Pergamano Tracing Pen, and a Plume Atome 423 (Conté France).

I used an old etch of the Thames Embankment by the nineteenth century artist Willem Witsen as an example for the background of Donald and the nephews ([Regen,] Thames Embankment, 1890). The building behind Scrooge I recently found back in Stern's, Mellins' and Fishman's New York 1960 (New York, The Monacelli Press, 1995). Apparently it is Kips Bay Plaza, First to Second Avenue, East Thirtieth to East Thirty-third Street.

It is an old drawing, and it has some faults in it, but I still like the details. I remember I mainly drew it from a photo from a photo from a book in the library, returning two times to learn the details by heart, because I was a poor little fuck. Not because I am into that avantgarde shit, or something.