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| 3/9/26 Metro Market parking lot, Crown Hill neighborhood |
Although I participate in a few annual drawing challenges
regularly and others more sporadically, my all-time favorite is One Week 100
People. Reading Marc Taro Holmes’ blog reminded me that this was the 10th
year of the challenge, which means I’ve participated for 10 consecutive years!
If you scroll through all the years, you’ll see that my style hasn’t changed much, nor has my goal: To capture people from life as simply as possible but also as unique individuals, not generic symbols. At least one year, I went to a studio life-drawing session for some part of the hundred. During the pandemic, I made self-portraits from a mirror – the only year I didn’t hit a hundred! All the other sketches were done in public spaces capturing whoever I saw. It’s all been so much fun while being great practice.
Sketching from my car in a grocery store parking lot has become a reliable though challenging standby: A regular stream of people going in and out. My favorite part is when they load groceries into their cars. With only seconds per sketch, it’s often frustrating, but I enjoy that tension. By comparison, Metro Market’s café was slow.
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| Metro Market cafe |
That was Day 1. The next day, Roy, Mary Jean and I met at Third Place Commons to work on our hundred together. We all noted that the place was full of ideal “victims”: Some groups held meetings; others played cards. A crafting group was working on needlework and knitting; another group was painting and drawing. I caught a trio of bluegrass musicians jamming together. The best part: Almost everyone hardly moved!
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| 3/10/26 Third Place Commons, Lake Forest Park |
(Stay tuned for the rest of the week in Part 2.)
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