{"id":12311,"date":"2013-03-18T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:10:59","slug":"so-long-son-of-sketchbook-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/18\/so-long-son-of-sketchbook-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Son of Sketchbook From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"red-devil\"<\/a>Another old sketchbook that has withstood every attempt to commit a decent drawing to it’s pages has bitten the dust. It continued to fight my efforts, but occasionally when I cracked it open on the Market-Frankford El without a notion of what I was going to do, I would come up with a sketch that I sort of liked. The red devil was one of those drawings rare for this horrible little sketchbook.<\/p>\n

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Now that it’s done, I sort of miss it. I think it’s the last easily portable sketchbooks that I had in need of redemption.<\/p>\n

\"sonofsketchbook\"<\/a>Son of Sketchbook From Hell<\/span>
\nDecember 28, 1988 – March 8, 2013<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another old sketchbook that has withstood every attempt to commit a decent drawing to it’s pages has bitten the dust. 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