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| 5/24/16 brush pen, Zig marker, ink, colored pencils |
Just last month I was talking about how sketching is like antique shopping: If you see something you like,
you’d better get it now, because tomorrow it may be gone. It happened again.
Yesterday I drove past the site of the former Wilson-Pacific
School, where a nearly demolished mural had been restored and recently re-installed. (I first learned about the
restoration effort last year from The Seattle Sketcher.) Construction of the new school is under way on the site,
and when I drove by, I could clearly see the huge, striking mural from the
street along with some heavy equipment, mounds of dirt and other construction
stuff. I thought it would make a great sketch, but it was raining at the time,
so I decided to come back today.
Too late. Now the mural is no longer visible from the street
and probably won’t be for a while. I didn’t go home without a sketch, though – I
had my choice of lots of machinery, some busy, some not. I picked this little
excavator that didn’t have anything to do.
It is true that you have to sketch things when you have a chance. You never know what will be waiting for you. Nothing like riding to see a lighthouse and finding the whole thing covered in scaffolding. lol Nice sketch of the machinery.
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