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The other day when I visited the Northwest School to introduce a class to urban sketching, I
arrived a few minutes early. The building, which is on the National Register of
Historic Places, has an old lamp post topped by dragon-like gargoyles near the
entryway. As I approached, I saw that building restoration was taking place,
and an excavator next to the post caught my eye. Then I saw that workers were
stabilizing and protecting the gargoyles so that the lamp could be removed. Within
minutes, they had taken the post out of the ground, and by the time the kids
arrived for class, the post and gargoyles were lying next to the building.
When I gave my presentation to the class, it was fun to
show them the sketch that I’d made just minutes earlier because they had all
seen the lamp post lying on the ground. I thought it was a good example of an
urban sketch capturing a moment of action.
You were really quick to capture the action. Nice! The kids must have been impressed.
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