Sketchcrawl #30- The Library of Congress

We were at the LoC for our latest Sketchcrawl and while I didn't get to see or sketch the hawk in the reading room, there was an overabundance of decorative architecture, displays and statuary to sketch.

Sketching the State of the City

Friday (Aug 6) was the 2010 State of the City show at the ROCO, which featured a lot of nice work including Amy Casey, Trevor Flynn and Spectres of Liberty. But by far the most interesting part of the show was the participation of the Rochester Sketchcrawlers. The idea was for visitors to join in with the Sketchcrawlers and then share their drawings on a designated ROCO wall, and there was a nice collection of drawings up at the end of the night. I pinned two sketches on their wall, but kept the rest in my sketchbook.

The sketches i kept were mostly blind-contour sketches of people. I have twice as many attempted drawings in my moleskine as I have finished sketches though, from not being able to handle people moving while I draw.

(Amy Casey and her friend #3 below were not blind contour)

(But this gentleman was)

Highland Park Diner

So I've made it a habit to go drawing around Rochester on New Years day while back home for the holidays. I wasn't outside sketching the diner for long before the cold got the better of me. Thinking back on it now, I'm not sure why I didn't hop in to the Highland Park Diner to get something to warm me up.

I took the sketch and used it to make a few prints on craft paper. I also made a set of small prints that I am using for another set of giveaway prints, which I will post about soon I am sure.

Sketchcrawl 25 results

As per usual I was batting about .600 as my third drawing never really came together. Joel and I found a couple of spots to draw around Chinatown and the Shaw neighborhood before we called it a day. Being in Chinatown especially, we had a lot of passers by making kind comments.. and perhaps even one gallery owner... it was a nice day for a Sketch crawl.

Sketch Crawl

I wasn't quite on my own as I had the company of another first time sketch crawler (Julia). The weather was kind of crappy so we decided to draw inside the Natural History museum and the Arboretum on the National Mall.

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