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For the 49th quarterly World Wide SketchCrawl, Urban Sketchers Seattle met at the Gates Foundation Visitors Center. This
was my second visit there, and as I was last time, I was impressed by the
varied ways in which the foundation is improving people’s lives around the
world. So many things we take for granted, like having a flushing toilet, clean
drinking water and contraception, are not easily accessible to many, many
people. I always learn interesting things there, like the fact that smelly
socks are used to trap and kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes!
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Although the foundation is inspiring in many ways, I admit
that I wasn’t particularly visually inspired for sketching subjects. After
wandering around for a while, I settled on the Iron Lung, which also attracted several other sketchers. According
to the video loop playing nearby (which, unfortunately, we sketchers all had to
hear many times and probably memorized by the time our sketches were done!), a
polio patient would have to spend two to three weeks inside the Iron Lung until
they recovered enough to breathe on their own. A stand was attached so that the
patient could read a book, but someone else would have to turn the pages. A
mirror allowed them to “see the world around them.”
After that sketch, I found a window facing Fifth Avenue
North and sketched several maples shedding leaves on the sidewalk. I also had
fun using the selfie machine, which automatically projects the images onto the
wall, with Michele and with my first
sketch.
That iron lung is a scary thing. I remember it from my childhood and the stories we heard about kids that had to be in it. Good sketch of it and the outdoor sketch with all the leaves and cars.
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