The Cairns of Green Lake

10/5/16 brush pen, ink, colored pencils

When a friend and I were walking around Green Lake yesterday morning, we spotted a series of slender cairns built at various park locations. Closer to the lake’s shore, the artist himself was still at work, carefully balancing one stone atop another.

10/5/16 inks, colored pencils

Thinking that those relatively precarious, fragile cairns wouldn’t be standing for long, I went back in the afternoon to sketch some of them.

Despite the drizzle earlier in the day, the afternoon turned out beautiful. Walking back to my car, a busker caught my eye. What a treat to be sketching a busker in the October sunshine!