Crime art...

[fajrdrako]

In the grocery store this morning, the front page of The Ottawa Citizen caught my eye. It had a courtroom drawing of a woman who had been charged with locking up children she was taking care of. I looked carefully as I always do when I see courtroom drawings in the paper, to see if it was by my friend dewline, who sometimes draws for the Citizen.

Well, it wasn't - it was by another local artist who's a friend of mine, Ronn Sutton! Woo! Way to go, Ronn, and what a treat to see a friend's drawing on the centre of the front page.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

"Locking up her children"...? I wonder... did they misbehave that badly, or did she do it because of her own lousy personality? Or, more likely, something in between the two? Either way -- this thing still happens in this day and age, although it has long been decried... and ends up forcing the children into the same sort of scenario as when they are lost or abandoned and survive by hooking up with wild dogs or other animals. Ottawa, 2007, eh? Interesting.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't know what will happen with this case, but I find it amazing that people will leave their children in conditions like this and have no idea.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I'm flattered to think that the local papers might consider contacting me to do more courtroom art! Sad to say, though, it's been ten years since my last gig for CBC(who used to have a co-op deal with the Citizen once upon a time, hence my works' occasional inclusion there.

Ronn's certainly good enough at the job, though...and if you want to see CBC recall me, I wouldn't object. At all.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think the business of courtroom sketches must be very interesting. When I was studying journalism, courtroom reporting was one of my favourite assignments.