6/13/15 Platinum Carbon and Iroshizuku Kiri-same inks, watercolor, Caran d'Ache Museum colored pencils, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
Every time I go to the Lake City Farmers Market, right at Northeast 123rd where I turn off
Lake City Way, I see a giraffe. The first time I spotted it, I did a double-take.
For a long time that life-size giraffe has been on my list of “things
to sketch someday,” and today was the day. From Lake City Way, it looks
reasonably realistic. From across the street, not so much. It turns out that the
giraffe is part of Dario’s Statuary Factory Outlet. Just beyond the giraffe within the barbed wire fencing are
hundreds of statuary, bird baths, figurines and other concrete objects of all
sizes and types. The sign on the fence said all garden statues are 50 percent
off. I’m guessing the giraffe is not.
Strangely, a bird bath stood just outside the fencing near
the parking strip. Returned by a customer? Rejected after the buyer realized it
was too large to fit in the car? Ah, the mysteries of the savanna.
How many people would buy a giraffe statue for their garden? LOL Good sketch.
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done! I love that place -- I probably have bought 20+ garden statues there over the years, though I stick to things I can pick up myself!
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