tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91465588418309718682024-02-07T16:24:09.797-08:00JSVBdeleteJeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comBlogger1595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-9190118327566518392019-01-28T17:01:00.000-08:002019-02-28T17:02:05.930-08:001596 - Archangel XII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the upper left corner, you might make out the brand for Wild-Heerbrugg. They used to make precision instruments, but went out of business decades ago. The black case holds a ruling pen set that my Father gave me; it was his set when he was a draughtsman back in the 1950's or '60's. Ruling pens are a style of steel pen nib, the sort that you dip in liquid ink. The nibs are adjustable by screw so that you can achieve different line thicknesses. I really should feature this set on JSVB someday, it's very special.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was my first time using these ruling pens. I know you should load them with ink, but thinned acrylic paint works nearly as well. I discovered that these pens create lines from hairline at the thickest down to atomic at the thinnest. It was crazy how thin the lines were, I had never seen anything like it before. By comparison, drawing with a modern ruling pen like the one I typically use for setting down haloes is like using a houspainter's brush. Nobody seems to make precision ruling pens anymore, so using my Dad's old set was marvelous. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-5855245245354158472019-01-24T15:00:00.000-08:002019-02-22T15:01:26.514-08:001595 - CEL VI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Energized, I felt confident enough to return to box designs for the CEL logo. I was creating orthographic art - trapezoids and diamonds - that when assembled looked three-dimensional. It's a powerful op-art effect. I had to use a little mathematical geometry to make certain the pieces all fit properly, something that is a lot of fun for me. At one point, I considered making an orthographic tesseract: a four-dimensional representation of a cube. I'd still like to do that project, but I thought my time would be better spent focussing on what the client wanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These designs tested well. They aren't as precise I would have liked, though. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-11906636134424969582019-01-22T14:45:00.000-08:002019-02-22T14:47:51.965-08:001594 - CEL V<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My client could tell that I was not doing well with my logo illustrations. I certainly in no way mind coming up with drafts, and I value the input the client brings to the design process. What both of us were concerned about was that I seemed to be running out of creative ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Normally, I'll simply sleep on the problem. In my waking hours, I'll train my artist's eye on the world around me to spot some kind of inspiration. Quiet solitude walking through the forest helps. The rustling of tree branches in the wind, the chittering of squirrels and the chirping of birds, the high-pitched beeping of the reverse gear alarm of a diesel-powered dump truck, and the deep bass grinding of a hydraulic claw ripping up asphalt: those are the forest sounds I am accustomed to. The latter are from the construction of a nearby school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then it dawned on me: there's a building site a few blocks from my house where I can watch real structural consultants in action! I walked around the worksite, carefully noting the phases of construction, the types of vehicles, and the way the workers swarmed over the girders and concrete. All of those things gave me new ideas for the CEL logo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This time around, I presented Mr. Charleson with an abstract of a scaffold grid. The idea tested very well, but Mr. Charleson was eager to see some new ideas, and I had quite a few novel concepts to propose. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-43291502052599822242019-01-21T14:30:00.000-08:002019-02-22T14:31:07.592-08:001593- Archangel XI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-18251543226987632312019-01-20T14:22:00.000-08:002019-02-22T14:24:08.509-08:001592 - CEL IV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm going to admit that after generating some drafts for the Charleson Engineering Ltd. logo, I was running out of ideas. My client was hoping for a design based around a three-dimensional cube. I warned him that there were many, many logo designs built around cubes, and that many of them looked alike. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even so, I took a stab at making CEL into a cube. My first designs are adequate. My lack of enthusiasm for this approach communicates itself, I think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For my logo for Charleson Engineering Ltd., my client wanted me to explore rounded letters interacting. Here are some options for that. They ended up being a little abstract, but I feel they turned out well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I made the effort to make the logo fit within a Golden Rectangle, which I think helps make the composition be a little stronger. For more on Golden Rectangles go way, way back to JSVB Post #10 <a href="https://shyluk.blogspot.com/search?q=golden+rectangle">by please clicking here. </a> </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-18193588466811987802019-01-14T12:06:00.000-08:002019-02-22T12:07:05.704-08:001590 - Archangel X<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-44366530280271128152019-01-13T17:13:00.000-08:002019-02-14T17:14:07.059-08:001589 - "Poopitoo"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I never use emojis," I reply. It's nearly completely true. In all my life I have used exactly one emoji, a red heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, to complete the project, I made a custom icon I've named "Poopitoo", since who doesn't name their feces? </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-72394107537149988212019-01-12T14:20:00.000-08:002019-02-14T14:20:46.961-08:001588 - Clippy Sharpie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Forget the computer or the cel phone, my belief is that the Sharpie pen is one of the greatest advances of human communications in our generation. And now I have some clip art I have drawn of one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mr. Charleson also wanted to see different colours, so these were the colours I chose. I had some room to play with <i>Structural Consultants</i> so I placed a colourful maple leaf in the middle to make the logo more Canadian. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the end of the day we came to the realization that we could veer away from red if we had to, but other than that we did not come to an agreement on how the logo should look yet. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-25671811438177255212019-01-09T14:42:00.000-08:002019-02-11T16:43:03.958-08:001586 - CEL I<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like a broken fish-hook adrift in the ocean, even the least-capable social media presence has the possibility of making a big catch. So has JSVB attracted the attention of Charleson Engineering, a prestigious consultation firm operating out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. I guess it helps that Mr. Charleson was a childhood friend of mine, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I landed the CEL (Charleson Engineering Limited) account, a commission to provide Mr. Charleson's company with a new logo. Normally, logo work proceeds fairly quickly as I can present most clients with some ideas based on my previous work. In this case, I was able to do the same thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mr. Charleson was interested in a red logo that incorporated themes of construction and held the values of a family owned and run business. With my extensive background in non-construction (well, I do have several hundred hours of my lifetime poured into LEGO), and no first-hand knowledge of family businesses, all I was able to provide at first was one big question mark. I took some of Mr. Charleson's sketches and hashed them out, but they weren't satisfactory. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-43869058198005849642019-01-07T14:11:00.000-08:002019-02-11T14:12:22.651-08:001585 - Archangel IX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-88840304758359789272019-01-02T14:00:00.000-08:002019-02-11T14:01:02.099-08:001584 - The New Year's Baby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-57844136561225895342019-01-01T12:36:00.000-08:002019-01-21T00:39:46.146-08:001583 - Year Nine: JSVB In Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Looking at 2019, I'm deeply concerned. Up until now, the year 2019 was appropriate for the opening title crawl of the original Blade Runner (1982) movie: the introduction to a deeply philosphical, yet horrifyingly violent futuristic dystopia of decay and sensuality. Now that I see the real 2019, well, it's different from the movie version. The nicest thing I can say about it is, "where's my flying car already?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've added a ninth column of artworks to my JSVB matrix. Each column is a year, and each postage stamp is a post. My output for 2018 was close to that of 2017, so in that regard JSVB holds steady. The past few years have seen a decline in blogs, and JSVB is no different. People aren't interested in online journals anymore. Fortunately, JSVB isn't dependent on likes or user clicks. It's here to make sure I keep generating artwork, and hopefully that art gets more advanced and enjoyable every year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In that regard, I've made good progress. Where 2017 was tentative, in 2018 I followed through with promises to push my artwork in new directions. The results were positive. However, the nature of my new projects made for long gaps in between many of my posts, which no doubt frustrated what regular followers I may have. I've picked up some new clients who are buying my art, so I believe that my new work ethic is paying off, gradually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://shyluk.blogspot.com/2018/04/1471-movin-to-alberta.html">JSVB Post #1501</a> "<i>Movin' To Alberta" - </i>A simple photo with a fair amount of Photoshop. Posting this spoof picture convinced social media that I really was moving to Alberta in my brand new Ford Expedition truck. When I say social media, I don't mean the people I know, but rather the computer programs that run our social sites. Right after posting this, I started getting ads for expensive vehicles, cowboy things to do in Alberta, and for products of a high quality not normally associated with my status as an artist. Normally, I get shilled for dodgy weight-loss programs and cheap t-shirts with dumb sayings. So, I learned this: it's good to fool Big Daddy Internet every once in a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://shyluk.blogspot.com/2018/06/1513-happy-birthday-to-me-9.html">JSVB Post #1513 </a>"<i>Happy Birthday To Me (9)" - </i>Gosh, yet more Star Trek!? Under the hood of this picture is a new workflow which has helped me considerably with my projects in 2018. Painting this picture gave me a lot of confidence to push my work in new directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://shyluk.blogspot.com/2018/06/1519-g-13-formula-de.html">JSVB Post #1519</a> "<i>G&G 13: Formula De" - </i>A large-format poster with a very heavy emphasis on vibrant colours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I learned a lot about craftsmanship in 2018. People have become more interested in my art, and I am trying to cultivate a clientele. Art hasn't made me rich so far, but it has started to pay a couple of bills for me. Better still, the lessons I have learned, the successes and mistakes (brown hockey pucks, for goodness' sake!) have given me a foundation to begin some large projects in 2019. I look forward to those challenges! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thank you for paying attention to JSVB in 2018 and in years previous. I am especially grateful for those who have chosen to purchase my art! I hope that people share my excitement for the artwork that I plan to produce in 2019! </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-34005909171720670142018-12-29T18:56:00.000-08:002019-01-17T23:56:39.998-08:001582 - One Fine Day In Gotham<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-9593386648268135222018-12-25T15:17:00.000-08:002019-01-07T01:16:45.915-08:001581 - "In Slippers, Us"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Out of Black Friday that calls to her<br />Bright as the sun from heel to toes<br />I look upon what gods may fear<br />Lo, my wife's new holiday shoes<br /><br />In the clutch of Christmas cheerings<br />Meats minced and eggs a-nogged<br />She bludgeons my eyes with sequins<br />Her new slippers must now be blogged<br /><br />Beyond this place of wreaths and balladeers<br />Loom toes glittering green and red<br />And yet the ending of the year<br />Finds me content and well-fed<br /><br />It matters not how tensile the tinsel<br />How charged I am to love her full<br />No matter the glare from her foot-sill<br />She is the captain of my soul </span></i></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-35874766568477874392018-12-23T13:15:00.000-08:002019-01-06T13:16:03.828-08:001580 - Archangel VIII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) is one of my least favourite motion pictures of all time. I will grant that it is handsomely produced, it's simply not at all to my taste.</span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-24251385854626916922018-12-17T13:05:00.000-08:002019-01-06T13:06:37.774-08:001579 - Balls On Trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-14444323947675752302018-12-15T13:03:00.000-08:002019-01-06T13:04:06.810-08:001578 - Archangel VII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Continuing to triptych the light fantastic. Oh, what a rotten pun. But this angel is taking shape. The colours aren't right yet, but the basic shapes seem to be correct.</span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-68288987848630992552018-12-13T18:45:00.000-08:002019-01-01T18:45:45.043-08:001577 - Seven Seconds Of Ungoodness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is the last Ungood Art Day of 2018, and it can't come too soon. The thirteenths dfay of every month on JSVB is Ungood Art Day, where I present some of my art that just isn't very good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This slice of Ungood Art took me maybe seven seconds to scrawl. It's a schematic for facial shapes. It is proof that Ungoodness can be created almost instantly. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-15811750384748840792018-12-10T18:27:00.000-08:002019-01-01T18:30:03.152-08:001576 - Guess This Bird<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm not a bird-watcher. All throughout my art career, I've always had trouble rendering birds. If I go slowly and follow a good visual source, I can make a bird on paper. But most birds are flighty, so I sometimes have to draw quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I found a bird I thought was quite unique, so I drew it as fast as I could and filled in what details I could recall when the bird went away. Can you guess the bird I drew?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, my wife, also a non-birder, takes one look at my sketchbook and announces, "It's a whiskeyjack." Otherwise known as a grey jay, this bird spans all across North America and has an estimated population of at least 21.5 kajillion. Somehow, I missed seeing them all except this one. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-25857914601695564102018-12-06T18:05:00.000-08:002019-01-01T18:05:53.521-08:001575 - Big Green Saviour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here's a religious sketch from my sketchbook. It's of a larger-than-life statue of Jesus Christ in the evening sun. Since I used a green pencil, the sunniness doesn't quite come through. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-11872905977843797732018-12-01T15:29:00.000-08:002018-12-10T15:30:35.026-08:001574 - Skyline Car Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-30742339133377618892018-11-30T15:17:00.000-08:002018-12-10T15:17:48.248-08:001573 - Bar Car Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The efficient bar car on board The Canadian, Canadian National's flagship passenger train. The bar is well-stocked, but because it's on a train it's also really small. From what I know, tall fat people like me would have a hard time staying employed as staff on a train since we're simply too big to be helpful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The bar car, though, has the most comfortable seats on the train. I guess not many people sit there, although the bar is certainly popular and the bartenders are always busy. </span></div>
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Jeff Shylukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915415377502782962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146558841830971868.post-53609870630271426542018-11-29T14:57:00.000-08:002018-12-10T14:59:04.985-08:001572 - Lounge Car Sketch<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Late October, my wife and I were thrilled to experience our dream vacation, travel by rail all the way across Canada. The train is the Canadian National #1, the flagship of the passenger fleet, called "The Canadian". If you have a Canadian ten dollar bill with picture of a train on the back, that's the one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The trip was amazing, and the CN staff were very friendly and most helpful at every stage of our journey. It really was the trip of a lifetime! Of course we took a lot of pictures, documenting Canada from east to west. I'll probably post a few of the better ones as time goes by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However much we loved the train, it wasn't a great venue for visual art. It's insular: you're cut off from the rest of the world as the train trundles along. There's not much in the way of electronics or technology, either. Riding the train is very much like going back in time. My wife and I really enjoyed it. But the one thing I didn't count on was that the train jolted around quite a bit as it ran, making fine-lined artwork difficult unless the train was stopped. </span></div>
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