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Gazebo, Sketch 139

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Sketch of gazebo

I’m working on not being so agonizingly slow when I sketch. I had less than 10 minutes available for this sketch, and I decided to try it. I took seven minutes and even managed to get in some erasing. I didn’t leave enough room for the top of the gazebo in either attempt, though.

It’s not only the sketching where I want to increase my skill level, but the “seeing.” If I can’t “see” it, I can’t sketch it: angles, shadows, proportions, for example. I was standing up while sketching, which is also something new for me. I think I want a larger sketch pad.

Gazebo in Kyle, Texas

Sketch 139: Gazebo in Kyle, Texas

Boots, Sketch 138

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Sketch of rubber boots

I have had to wear my boots in my yard most everyday for almost a month. When the heavy rains started some weeks ago, I came home one day to discover that my driveway was flooded. I left my vehicle at the end of the driveway and waded to the house. The running shoes I wore through the water didn’t survive being submerged. I sent them through the washer and dryer but I couldn’t get out the moldy smell; into the trash they went.

Now my rubber boots come with me most days when I leave the house, due to the forecast of a repeat weather pattern.

Rubber boots

Sketch 138: Rubber Boots

Clinic, Sketch 137

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Sketch of clinic

I sketched this while waiting for the clinic to open. I was more than half-way through the sketch before I realized I didn’t have on my glasses. Well, I thought, if it works, it works. This was one of those situations where I was doing something different (sketching away from home) and so my routine was off. You’d think I would remember to put on my glasses before sketching, but I didn’t.

Closed clinic

Sketch 137: Clinic; Places I Go #2

Library Lobby, Sketch 136

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Sketch of the library lobby

Hmm. Everything is leaning to the left.

The Austin Public Library branches open at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays. The meeting for the Heart of Texas Sisters In Crime chapter starts at 2:15. I forced myself to do a quick sketch; I took 7 minutes for this one. The display case has handwork from the Austin Stitchery Guild.

Library Lobby

Library Lobby

Sketch 136: Library Lobby; The Places I Go #1