3/30/18 Maple Leaf neighborhood |
We’ve
been seeing Comcast cherry pickers all over the neighborhood lately. They’ve
already been on our street, and now
they are working a few blocks up. I ran into two of them on my stroll the other
day; their trucks completely blocked the street.
I didn’t
know how much time I’d have, so I quickly sketched the tops of the cherry
pickers and the three workers first, then roughed in the vehicles and the rest
of the composition. Good thing I did, because just then they decided they were
done. As I finished my sketch, the three men came over to see what I was doing.
Utility and construction workers often get nervous when they see someone standing at length watching
them and doing what looks like writing in a notebook. They were delighted to
see that I was sketching them and said that they are more often complained
about than drawn. They also let me know they will be in my ‘hood for a while
longer, so I’ll have plenty more to sketch if I want to.
Hey,
did you catch the part about how I captured this while I was out strolling? That’s two days in a row that it was warm enough to sketch from the sidewalk! Could
it be that spring didn’t forget us after all?
Good to see that strolling is possible in Seattle. We're having a day where it would be possible here too, but my leg wasn't up to the task when I tried this morning :-( Nice to see the sun though.
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