Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

At a gathering of friends, someone commented on the recent addition to the hosts' collection of little rubber duckies: three large glass 'rubber duckies' that came from the Corning Museum of Glass. I made a comment about the difficulties of trying to win the glass duckies from a Claw Machine, which is the origin of all of the actual rubber duckies. I added that I'd have to add that to my list of things to draw (and did write "Christmas orniment claw machine" on a scrap of paper I had handy for just such situations).

Today, it occurred to me that this seemed very similar to an idea I had long ago. And it took me like 30 seconds to find the notebook and place (i.e., the very front) where today's drawing originates. The picture doesn't have a date on it (it was slightly before I created a stylized version of my initials and started adding that to drawings), but given the context of stuff in the notebook, it was around early 1988 (possibly late 1987). I think it was just a random musing, probably related to buying something like a candy bar in my senior year of undergrad. I'm not sure if I'll draw the glass ornament claw machine now. Maybe if I'm either inspired or uninspired, but less likely now. Here's the full size image.