♬♫♪ This old man, he played one, he played knick-knack on our sun…♬♫♪ (Sketches of the Week for Week 16 of 2025)

Another week where Sketch of the Week was disputed; my son felt strongly that the lower sketch of the sunrise through a just-budding cherry tree, was the stronger work technically, in that it captured something about the way light behaves in that situation that he found delicious. I preferred the windswept old man, because of the way he teeters between sinister and good-humored in the same why the open eye from Week 14 vacillates between terrified and enraged.

A pair of pencil sketches. The upper sketch shows an wiry old bald man with an enormous beard. He's depicted from the chest up, and seems to be somewhat windswept. The lower sketch shows a cherry tree just in blossom as the sun rises behind it, throwing it into sharp contrast.