Travelling with a sketchpad, drawing people in particular, opens up many possibilities – good, ill, or interesting. Creating a street corner portrait is an intimate outdoor act, involving intense scrutiny of a perfect stranger – and their scrutiny of you. It bonds artist and subject in a way a snapshot never can – not to mention being a magnet for idlers, gawkers, critics, cops, and thugs …
Bio:
Anthony Jenkins is an Ontario-based artist and writer (see www.jenkinsdraws.com).