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The entire senior class of Hamline University, 1925

hamline-university Flickrer, johnralston, presents a watercolour portrait of every member of the graduating class of Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1925. Each portrait was, “drawn in one hour a night–with a few days off–from November 17, 2004 to February 17, 2005.”

Beautifully arbitrary. If there’s a reason, I’d probably prefer not to learn it.

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  • Jack Custer

    These are beautiful. Does anyone know if they’re for sale, or if he has any other art for sale?

  • Jack Custer

    These are beautiful. Does anyone know if they’re for sale, or if he has any other art for sale?

  • http://ogawaogawa.livejournal.com/ William Raymond OGawa

    These are great. Curiously, I’m doing the exact same thing with an old yearbook I found, though my drawings are just in graphite.

  • http://ogawaogawa.livejournal.com/ William Raymond OGawa

    These are great. Curiously, I’m doing the exact same thing with an old yearbook I found, though my drawings are just in graphite.

  • shin

    http://flickr.com/photos/johnralston/sets/72057594101355677/
    thats the link to buy his stuff
    they are indeed beautiful.
    what a great idea

  • shin

    http://flickr.com/photos/johnralston/sets/72057594101355677/
    thats the link to buy his stuff
    they are indeed beautiful.
    what a great idea

  • shin

    http://flickr.com/photos/johnralston/sets/72057594101355677/
    thats the link to buy his stuff
    they are indeed beautiful.
    what a great idea

  • shin

    http://flickr.com/photos/johnralston/sets/72057594101355677/
    thats the link to buy his stuff
    they are indeed beautiful.
    what a great idea

  • John Ralston

    These are my drawings. Thanks for posting them!

    Not to ruin anyone’s fun by saying why I did this, I will say that a big part of doing it was simply to see if I could do this. Like it says in the Flickr set, I did these in an hour a night, with no “do-overs” (well, there was one where I spilled ink over the whole thing, and had to start over).

    I think some of them came out pretty lousy, but I was blogging the drawings at the time, and I thought it would be interesting to show even the lousy ones. I also think you can see a definite arc in this project where my skill level started going up with the sustained practice, and toward the end, when I started getting sick of the project, the drawings are less refined.

    I highly recommend an “hour-a-night” project to everyone–I really learned a lot doing this, and (until I’d open the yearbook and see that I still had many, many to go) it was a lot of fun.

  • John Ralston

    These are my drawings. Thanks for posting them!

    Not to ruin anyone’s fun by saying why I did this, I will say that a big part of doing it was simply to see if I could do this. Like it says in the Flickr set, I did these in an hour a night, with no “do-overs” (well, there was one where I spilled ink over the whole thing, and had to start over).

    I think some of them came out pretty lousy, but I was blogging the drawings at the time, and I thought it would be interesting to show even the lousy ones. I also think you can see a definite arc in this project where my skill level started going up with the sustained practice, and toward the end, when I started getting sick of the project, the drawings are less refined.

    I highly recommend an “hour-a-night” project to everyone–I really learned a lot doing this, and (until I’d open the yearbook and see that I still had many, many to go) it was a lot of fun.

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