As a meetup group we headed out to the Public Market for some good old fashioned chilly sketching. This, by far, was the coldest day we've had this fall, and we picked an outside venue!
We wandered around from place to place sketching chickens, coffee shops, and people milling about. At one point Genine got chatting with the owner of Juan and Maria's Empanada Stop food stall. She was sketching his stall and got chatting about creativity. He uses food and sauces for his outlet, we use pen and watercolors! At one point he handed us free empanadas so we could try his sauce! We munched away and I sketched the sauces to remember the moment! It was really cool! Only when sketching will you meet people that way!!
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| Java's front porch |
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| Genine and Juan! |
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| Me and Juan! |
[namiki falcon with DeArtementis Document ink, D+S watercolors in a S+B Epsilon Series sketchbook]
45 degrees and rain are perfect ingredients to exercise one of two indoor memberships I have: The Lamberton Conservatory, or the NY Museum of Transportation. We went with option B.
If you haven't been, please head over and visit Jim and his hard at work volunteers. The museum is a whimsical collection of trains, a few cars and a lot of dust. It's like getting lost in grandpas basement. They are only open on Sunday's and from now until fall they are offering train rides on 1/2 mile HAND LAID TRACK! It's amazing! The experience is like jumping in a Delorian and heading back in time--AND you can sketch there!
We hid in a dark corner in front of a cool 1941 Mack Fire Truck. I eventually snuck over to an old International Truck, which was very dark to start and then someone hit the lights after I had painted it. I guess it's another excuse to visit!
We also got a rid on the hand-laid 1/2 mile track on a refurbished cable car. While the conductor was giving us a history lesson Genine and I sketched furiously!
[fancy pentel pencil, namiki falcon with DeArtementis Document ink, D+S watercolors in a S+B Zeta sketchbook]
With this awesome spring weather, the sun is actually up past 3:30 in the afternoon. So now when I walk around downtown the light and shadows are magnificent! I found a nice park bench on main street, parked it there for an hour or so.
My watercolor skills haven't been very strong as of late (were they ever?) so I stuck with some gray markers to add my depth. I was on a roll, and then the sun dipped behind a building and put my bench in a cool shadow and I started to get a little frigid. Which is middy silly considering 9 weeks ago it was -9 degrees out here.
[uni pin 0.2 pen, PITT cool gray markers, a gigantic PITT white marker in a S+B Zeta sketchbook]
More Greenfront creepin'.
[pilot V5 pen, PITT cool gray markers, a gigantic PITT white marker in a gray toned Strathmore sketchbook]
