Rhapsodies

It was just for forty five minutes.

I was spending most of the afternoon doing grunt work for the setup for a memorial service at Meeting and I had an hour off when the memorial actually started. I decided to go to Gasworks Park and chill for a half hour. and then get back to meeting in time to help with the final bit of setup (and access to the potluck). But when I got there there were a group of Cuban dancers rehearsing for their part of the Fremont Solstice Parade. So I sat down to sketch it.

It wasn’t my best stuff. When you’re drawing dancers it never is. Pretty much you go in knowing it’s gesture work with a lot of improv thrown in. If you have something you can work with later on great, if not… you got your artistic pushups for the day in. Much to my surprise it was very well received by several of the people who saw I was drawing them. I’m always surprised how people react. If I had a camera it would be “who said you could take a picture of me, &#$%le?” but here I am with a sketch book and the reaction is “wow that is so cool!” Even if the picture is way subpar.