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| 2/25/13 Platinum Sepia ink, Platinum Carbon wash, Zig markers, watercolor |
It’s only Monday, so I decided to get my car-sketching
exercise over with early in the week. After stopping at the library’s Green
Lake branch, I drove toward the west side of the lake and pulled into a parking
lot (though a different one from the one where my car battery died last week,
just in case bad car battery jujus lingered).
After a cold and breezy morning, the sun came out, so the
lake was crowded with walkers, and the lot was fairly full. Twice when I
targeted a car and started to sketch, its owner came by and drove away. (When Peggy
and I were sketching the Ballard Centennial Bell Tower together a while
back, she remarked that the surest way to make a car go away was to start
sketching it.) Three’s a charm, and this silver Subaru stayed put long enough
for me to finish the sketch. (Though barely – I was still scribbling shadows
when it drove away, so I had to paint from memory.)
LOL The surest way to make anything go away is to start sketching it. You are doing well with the cars. I like how you showed a bit of the interior too. Maybe the secret is to wait by an empty space and hope someone pulls in. That way you get them from the start of their visit.
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