The story

Drawing on guest checks, bar napkins, coasters, and the back of envelopes is compulsory for anyone with a pen and the need to put something down. I think the special nature of a sketch  or note jotted on a circumstantial medium, is found in the memory of the place it was drawn and the company it shared. On a steamy Charleston afternoon lunch break I found myself before the local knights of Columbus building and without my sketchbook. What I did have was a guest check pad (during the week I was an architectural intern and by night I was a waitress). I had the choice to buy a new sketchbook or use what I had on hand. The choice was simple because my lunch break was only an hour and I had countless fresh sketchbooks at home. So I went to work scaling the multistory brick building down to a cramped 3”x5” pad. The line weights were wrong, the details squished, and the lettering horribly out of scale. But I scratched the itch of needing to draw and put the guest check pad back in my bag to be forgotten until my next shift at The Rarebit diner (a guestcheck). 

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