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1/23/23 Green Lake |
Though it’s tough on cold, windy, drizzly days (I draw the
line at hard rain), my walk-sketching fitness program continues. My carrot on
the stick is always an opportunity to sketch something, anything, in the
neighborhood. Even when I feel too cold to pull the tops off my convertible mittens long enough to sketch, I’m always happy afterwards that I did.
Because any sketch on location is better than no sketch on location.
One day I wanted to make a postcard for someone, but the
weather had been inhospitable, and I wasn’t sure when it would improve long
enough to make one. The solution was simple: I grabbed a Hahnemühle postcard
on my way out the door for my fitness walk (below). I knew that I probably wouldn’t
find anything “special” to sketch, but then, when do I ever? The subject matter
is never as important as the impulse to capture it or the desire to say, “I
thought about you as I made this sketch.”
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1/28/23 Maple Leaf |
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1/28/23 Maple Leaf |
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1/28/23 Maple Leaf |
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1/29/23 Mt. Rainier from Maple Leaf Park |
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2/1/23 Green Lake |
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2/3/23 Maple Leaf |
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2/13/23 Green Lake |
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2/13/23 Green Lake |
The great thing about sketching is we make something ordinary be special. Nice sketches in the green ugly book!
ReplyDeleteExactly -- sketching it is what makes it special!
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