When we moved from Kansas to this small cabin in Texas, one of the things we had to give away was an old dining table and 6 chairs that had been in the family since Bill's grandparents bought it at a farm auction when they first got married in the 1920s --- the table is from the 1850s and comes with an oak crate holding 4 expansion leaves! They paid $6.
Having no room for it now, we gave the set to our youngest son who has been wanting it for a very long time. Now we are using my grandmother's old kitchen work table instead; with 2 drop-leaves, it easily fits next to this window. But I had no chairs for it.
While visiting in Pflugerville / Austin over the weekend, we found these ice cream parlor chairs at a vintage furniture store. The leather cushions are the same cream color that the table is painted, and they don't take up a lot of space. Perfect fit!
As I was finishing up this sketch, Bearcat jumped on the window sill so I quickly scribbled him in.
Love your pen sketches, Vicky! Do you use a pencil before using a pen ?
ReplyDeleteNormally yes, I like working out placement in pencil --- and I tried that here. But this paper is handmade and fragile and does not handle erasures well. Looks like I will just use the barest of pencil, leave the marks on the paper, and work mostly with ink alone.
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