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| 3/20/19 Maple Leaf neighborhood |
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| 3/20/19 gesture sketches |
Unlike
the excavator I showed you yesterday,
which was snoozing on a trailer, this one was working busily. I watched with
fascination as its big mouth scooped up dirt from one side, spun around, and
opened its jaws to dump the dirt on the other side – over and over. I wasn’t
sure how I was going to capture all that activity, so I started by making a few
quick gesture sketches of its various positions.
Eventually
I noticed that it was pausing for longer periods in one position than the others,
so I chose that one to make a final sketch. Whenever it spun around to the
other side, I just waited a bit for it to return to the original position. It’s
like sketching birds at our feeder;
they move quickly, but they always seem to return to the same gesture again.
(While
all of this was going on, a team of gardeners decided to work on the parking
strip where I was standing and turned on their noisy leaf blowers. I had to pause
to put in my ear plugs!)
Nice gesture sketches and final sketch! It is nice of them to keep returning to the same pose.
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