When I was a kid, the Wellfleet News Dealer was the coolest store – your usual chewing gum and newspapers in the front, and then a maze of musty, crowded, flourescent-lit aisles full of snap-together models, beach toys, jigsaw puzzles, magazines, comic books, and a selection of suntan lotion that seemed to have been sitting there for decades.
Now it’s very clean and sunny and sells nothing but Thai handicrafts, candles and windchimes. I hate it.
I drew this while waiting for the bus to Provincetown. I didn’t draw any of the giant frog-puppet DVD-storage units posed outside.
Your description of the old shop sounded like a great memory, pity the place has changed but this drawing of it still makes it look interesting. Really like this work!
— Deb Salter 08/11/2007 #
Ok, I don’t have time, but I’m lingering and looking more anyway. I’m a text person, not a visual artist or anything, but I very much experience warmth and fondness coming out of these paintings/drawings. Reminds me of James Stevenson’s illustrations in his excellent children’s book, “Could Be Worse.” Something in the use of color and the way your lines are easygoing—does that make sense? Lovely.
— bodhibound 08/28/2007 #
Thanks to both of you!
(I don’t think I’ve ever seen “Could Be Worse” ... I’ll definitely check it out.)
— Jason Das 08/28/2007 #