Stealth sketching downtown
This morning I decided it was the perfect day to head downtown and do some sketching and take some reference pictures of the buildings. As you can see, nature cooperated nicely.
I spent the first few hours in The Green Bean (The coffee shop downtown) and found the perfect table for stealthily drawing the people sitting on the sidewalk outside.
The man on the right was very animated…his hands flailing back and forth helping him make his points. Normally I have my ipod on, but today just seemed like an ipod free day so I got to listen to the woman behind me say “yeah” emphatically throughout the course of her business meeting. I swear she said it over 500 times in an hour. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Yeah.
Lots of people were walking up and down the sidewalk, I’m just sorry I didn’t capture the man (who I assume was homeless but I could be wrong) wandering around dressed in what looked like a FedEx jumpsuit wrapped up in orange string.
We have a new park where I discovered it was perfect during lunch to sketch people from a distance. This lets me focus on poses rather than getting caught up in details.
There’s also some major construction going on on a building right next to the park. (hence the sketches of the construction workers.) I found myself wondering which direction I could run if the crane suddenly started to fall. I decided it would be best to run towards the base of the crane rather than taking my chances of getting hit with the top. It’s just how my mind works…it’s best not to question it.
The only downside to the whole day? The art store downtown is going out of business. It’s the only one I know of that always had exactly what I needed. But, on the upside, everything in the store was at least 50% off. So I stocked up. I may have to go back. Looks like everything will have to be DickBlick.com from now on. (Which, may be why they’re going out of business.)