So I cannot retrace my steps to the resting place of my childhood happiness!" For weeks I watched Augustin feverishly sketching, trying to create the map that would take him back to his lost childhood, as the other children plotted with the unknown Gypsy, heavily bandaged around his head, who had mysteriously arrived in the village to steal the notebook from him..
As a running gag throughout the half-hour show, Harrison interrupts the sketches, trying to land an acting role as a pirate (and dressed accordingly), but gets turned down each time by RWT regulars Idle and Neil Innes, who simply want him to play the part of "George Harrison".
The earliest of the sketches tries to record the fleeting effects of weather on the landscape and reflects the influential teachings of the 18th-century painter Pierre-Henri Valenciennes.
I think I was a sketch player trying to break out.
The maker of Etch A Sketch is trying to put a positive spin on its status as a political insult with a new advertisement campaign.
Instead, in long, often angst-ridden evenings spent at his kitchen table with a pencil and sketch pad, trying to generate ideas, he composed fictions about everyday life.
The makers of Etch A Sketch are trying to capitalize on its recent prominence in the Republican presidential campaign with a cheeky online ad campaign, Sarah Wheaton reports.
Recently, in a mash-up of MTV and René Magritte, "Saturday Night Live" aired "This Is Not a Feminist Song," a hilarious sketch about trying and failing to write a political anthem.
Brand holds center stage for virtually the entire show, depicting Asher as young as six and into manhood, almost always drawing and sketching or trying to explain and defend the burning desire he has to become a painter.
Yes — can you get ten sketches turned down and write an eleventh sketch?' " Jones tried to speak.
Bono, who compared many of his lyrics prior to The Joshua Tree to "sketches", said that "'Where the Streets Have No Name' is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it's a sketch—I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location.
