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Having read only the first book and having seen only a
couple of the films, I can hardly call myself a Harry Potter fan. (I can’t tell Gandalf from Dumbledore to
save my life.) But I am a fan of sketching at Gingerbread Village, the annual holiday fundraising event hosted by the Seattle
Sheraton. Local architectural firms team up with the Sheraton’s chef to create
truly marvelous edible confections. The term “gingerbread house” hardly describes
the colorfully lighted, kinetic, three-dimensional depictions of the Harry
Potter books.
Last year the theme was Star Wars, and since I’m definitely a fan of that franchise, I spent a
lot of detailed time sketching the candy-and-cookie depictions of my two
favorite films. Since I didn’t have much personal connection with the theme
this year, I decided to focus more on the visitors. My favorite was the young
child (gender uncertain to me) wearing a teddy bear hoodie and pulling a bright
green wagon. His mom, obviously a huge Potter fan, was snapping as many photos
as she could while also explaining to her kid, who apparently hadn’t seen the films
yet, what was going on in the scenes. Mom was running back and forth too much
for me to capture, but the kid was all I needed in the sketch.
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Early enough in the season, I didn’t get mobbed this morning,
so it was relatively easy to make gestural sketches of people of all ages (including the chef himself, who came out to greet visitors).
This was my fifth consecutive year sketching Gingerbread Village,
a tradition that began in 2012 as the first outing of Urban Sketchers Seattle’s Friday group. It started getting
too crowded for us to sketch comfortably, so after a couple more years, we
stopped, but I miss that festive gathering. I think we just have to go earlier
in the season as I did today (and Kate did last week).
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Oh, I love the one with the child and the green wagon...priceless!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the one with the child has a lot of personality. I AM a Harry Potter fan (& a Star Wars one). This year's display was the best ever, in my opinion. Interesting that we chose to sketch the same structure!
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