The Bird Watcher / by Michael Arthur

This is an "out-take" from my Armory Show series for Vanity Fair.It didn't really happen--it's a juxtaposition of a drawing I was trying to get of an elderly man with his camera wandering and shooting the art and a bird I heard singing up in the raf…

This is an "out-take" from my Armory Show series for Vanity Fair.

It didn't really happen--it's a juxtaposition of a drawing I was trying to get of an elderly man with his camera wandering and shooting the art and a bird I heard singing up in the rafters of the pier. It was a bare bones line drawing that I abandoned the other day--sometimes that happens when I'm trying to capture something and I get distracted or it just doesn't work in the moment--but I finished it this morning for fun. A cartoon of a scene that didn't happen but could have . . .