Joseph J Langenderfer
April 14th, 2010
A sketch of my Father done on his birthday two days ago.
Cleaning my studio recently I found some photos of Dad that I took as reference for an IBM illustration project in 1991. He posed as an executive in different postures, views and various hand gestures. I forgot to turn off the flash for a couple of shots which flattens out the lighting. One of those I used as reference for this drawing. I like his expression. I shot it between poses while we were talking. He was just days shy of his 54th birthday then, only three years older than I am now.
He died two and a half years ago at the age of seventy. I miss him.
Late Monday night I opened a beer and an old Grumbacher sketch pad and drew a small tribute to a great father.
10” x 8” graphite and charcoal on paper
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