Saturday, January 19, 2008

Sketchcrawl 17












I don't sketch enough. In fact, I rarely sketch at all unless I am doing a painting en plein air. So when I read about Worldwide Sketchcrawl, I knew I had to try it. A sketchcrawl is an all day sketching event held simultaneously all around the world. I wasn't expecting the next one to be in January.

It was cold, so my sister, Joan, and I went to one of the local parks where I knew we could sketch through the observatory window. We did a few sketches through the window, and some from the aquariums and displays inside the building. Then we drove to another park which had a little zoo. Many of the animals were gone or inaccessable for the winter. The only ones we could find were a few bison which were too far away to sketch, and some farm animals. I sketched a cow and started on a sheep. By then we were freezing, and the zookeeper actually made us leave before I finished my sheep drawing because it was getting late. So we went to a nearby mall for coffee and sketched some people and called it a day.


You can see the rest of my sketches at http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2789



2 comments:

Joan said...

The sketchcrawl was a lot of fun! We'll have to try doing the next one too if the timing works out.

"JeanneG" said...

I just love the cactus card you did for Joan. I really love the colors. I will have to check out the triad.