DC Sketchers @ Mount Pleasant Farmers Market

This Saturday, DC Sketchers gathered at Mount Pleasant Farmers Market. It was a beautiful morning with lots of shoppers, kids, dogs and musicians.

We started our class with blind contours of kale. Observing and recording the interesting linear convolutions tuned our eye and hand. We then translated this observation of line/edge into further observations of the market - allowing our eye to roam the scene and following with the pencil with a continuous, unbroken line.

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mall sketches (part 7)

this installment of mall sketches features hands - one is a sketch of my hand, and the other is a sketch of some mannequin hands that were in the window of one of the mall stores. i like to draw hands because they are challenging to get right, and i need all the practice i can get!

as always, to follow this project, click on "the mall" tag at the bottom of this post to see all of my mall sketches posted thus far. essentially, i go out during lunch and see what i can see in the mall.  not being an overly girly-girl, i often don't know what to do with myself in a mall (shop? nah!), so i opt to sketch my surroundings almost daily.

Two men enjoying quiet time, one on the Metro, and another at Pound Coffee

mall sketches (part 6)

sometimes people fall asleep on the couches in the center of the mall... and this is cool because i can draw them for a lot longer than if they are awake and moving or getting up and leaving. :)

coast to coast

i had to travel to california for business last month and sketched a bit in dulles airport while i was waiting for our plane to arrive. there was someone famous on our flight - the paparazzi flashes could be seen all the way down the terminal. i don't know who the woman was who was being followed, but it sure caused a ruckus. in any case, the rest of the flight was fairly uneventful aside from some rough turbulence. 

SketchCrawl #31.

Tomorrow (April 16th) is the official 31st Worldwide SketchCrawl. Our DC group will be meeting at Eastern Market between 10:30 & 11 am to sketch. Sometime after lunch we (or just those who want to join in) will head over to Nationals Park to sketch the crowd and stadium during the baseball game.

Let's meet at Port City Java, at the north end of the Market, then crawl our way around the market from there.

Follow my twitter feed to keep track of where we are sketching! @BjornEskil

SketchCrawl is also partnering with Give2Asia to benefit Disaster Relief in Japan.
Check out the website here:
Give2Asia.org/SketchCrawl

flowers sketched at home

red and yellow parrot tulips 

roses, iris and calla lily

white parrot tulips 

purple tulips in an antique Roseville vase 

blue Dutch iris and craspedia globosa 

 tulips in Ikea oddly shape ceramic vase 

tulips the second day 

anemones in a ceramic vase from Winchester, VA 

parrot tulips in a vintage glass vase 

red tulips in a hand built ceramic vase

cherry blossoms and parrot tulips in a crystal vase

flowering quince and steel grass in an antique Japanese vase

green cymbidiums in a cobalt blue vase 

mall sketches (part 5)

i finally scanned some of my newer mall sketches in so that i could share them.  here are a couple of people reading...

i am sad that i will not be able to attend the quarterly sketchcrawl on saturday, but will be sketching where i am able and will be with my fellow sketchcrawlers in spirit!

District Taco

After snacking there on a few occasions, I finally to round to sketching the District Taco food cart at the Courthouse Farmer's Market. Frankly the main reason I ever go to that farmer's market is so I have an excuse to get a breakfast taco from them.

Dr. Sketchy"s @ The Soundry

Rain rain go away, forced to sketch indoors till May. These two drawings were done on 4/8/2011 at the Dr. Sketchy's session featurung transvestite models, Jeffra and Karlll! Don't ask don't tell.

Composition from multiple poses

The lovely couple.

Waiting for a Plane

A quick sketch of a fellow traveler while waiting for a plane in Columbus, OH. I had a few more flight cancellations than usual this week - it seems something weird happens every time I go to Ohio.

Cherry Blossom II

I intended to get out to the cherry blossoms again this weekend but had to run into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden when the torrents of rain came down. I ended up with a few drawings of some of the sculptures.

Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Seated Woman

Alberto Giacometti: Bust of Diego

Fred Sandback: Untitled (Sculptural Study, Twelve-Part Vertical Construction)