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| 2/18/13 Platinum Carbon ink, watercolor, Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook |
This week’s Urban Sketchers Flickr Group weekly theme, “Sketching Nemesis,” is one that was inspired by my own blog posts about how I
have been trying to improve my sketches of cars by forcing myself to draw them
regularly. At some point, I made a loose commitment (how’s that for an
oxymoron) to sketch at least one car a week. When I read the weekly theme, I remembered
that I didn’t sketch a car at all last week and felt a pang of guilt. So I went
out this afternoon and sketched four in one composition (and actually several
more in the background) to make up for it.
But there was a little more to this otherwise mundane
sketching adventure. When I sit in my car to sketch, I like to listen to jazz
and NPR news on the radio. I was about 40 minutes into my sketch when the radio
suddenly died. What the heck…? I started fiddling with the radio knob when –
uh-oh. I realized I had left the headlights on, so it wasn’t just my radio that
was dead.
Fortunately, Allstate Roadside Assistance came to my
rescue! And what did I do while I waited for my jump start to come? Finished my
sketch, of course, and then sketched some more.
Oh, yes. I did that the first time I went sketching in my car.... Feb 2012! I had both the radio and the heater running but no headlights. It was an old battery.
ReplyDeleteSo now I listen to my iPod!
I, too, continued to work on the sketch while I waited for AAA. But the, the battery recovered, I was able to get it started and drove off to get a new battery (after calling AAA to tell them I didn't need help).
--Kate
Now you are set for 4 weeks of car sketching. lol Great that you are sketching the cars like you set out to do. Sorry you ran down the battery...that wasn't fun I'm sure. I don't keep my radio on while I sketch for that reason...and now I will definitely not do it.
ReplyDeleteGreat story, Tina. I find the best way to draw cars is to draw them as shapes and not cars. Otherwise we miss the perspective and foreshortening effects which are significant and we rely too much on our internal 'car image'. Great sketch, by the way.
ReplyDeleteCheers -- Larry