REVISTING: Drawn and Quartered in France

Walking-eyeball tourism: staring long and hard at the completely obvious. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE.

AFTER MY MOST RECENT POST, I had a rather poignant message from one of my readers. She asked if she might have a look at one of my posts that came BEFORE I discovered Procreate, and digital art. I heaved a sigh. In fact, I loved my pencil/watercolor drawings, because they were real: graphite on paper, followed up by ink, followed up by watercolors. So old world! So elemental! So human. In response, I scanned my early posts (most of them behind the paywall, for my paying subscribers; hey, that’s what Substack told me to do!) to find one where I was flashing my pencil work. The post below was seen only by about three hundred of you—my OG crew here on the Road2Elsewhere. Three thousand subscribers later, this feels like a pretty big deal. Back then, for the few and the proud, I posted from France, where I was traveling in the fall of 2022. So much to see! So much to draw and paint! I miss it too. Thanks for asking, Old School art fan! I’ll try to work in more of same, so my iPad and styl…