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| 8/16/12 Kuretake Brush Writer, Tombow marker, Stillman & Birn sketchbook |
At the risk of sounding un-American, I’m going to say it out
loud: I despise shopping malls. Last winter when I was itching for something to
sketch but the relentless rain kept me indoors, in desperation I went to
Northgate Mall and was deeply uninspired.
The past few days temperatures have been in the 90s, and in
a city where almost no one has an air-conditioned home, the heat drove me
to the public indoors for sketching as much as the rain does in winter. Once again at
Northgate, skeptical as I was, I reminded myself that the job of the artist is
to find inspiration, regardless of
the subject matter.
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| 8/16/12 Akashiya Sai, Tombow markers |
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| 8/16/12 Copic Multiliner SP pen
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What I found was plenty of hot, lethargic people like myself
seeking air conditioning, which meant that they stayed relatively still. I also
had an opportunity to use the brush marker technique I had tried earlier that day at Gasworks Park. Although the mall landscape isn’t quite as daunting as
Lake Union, the brush markers gave the scene an abstract beauty that I
appreciated more than retail banality.
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| 8/16/12 Akashiya Sai, Tombow markers |
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