7/9/19 Southcenter Mall |
If I had to name the least inspiring, most boring location for
urban sketching, it would be a shopping mall. I admit, I have been known to sketch
Santa at my neighborhood Northgate Mall, which is also a good place
to find easy victims for the annual One Week 100 People challenge. In most
cases, however, I find malls to be deadly dull.
A few days ago, I had about 10 minutes to kill while Greg ran an
errand at Southcenter Mall. A typical tactic in that situation would be to
sketch a few passers-by, but on a Tuesday morning, very few people seemed to have
need to be there. My eyes were about to glaze over at the mundane uniformity before
me when I realized that no matter how blah a scene may be, it always includes
lights and darks: Southcenter Mall was a values study waiting to happen. I pulled
out yellow and purple colored pencils and got to work.
Good outcome for such an uninspiring situation.
ReplyDeleteThanks! As you know, it's not exactly a sketcher's paradise there.
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