I was able to photograph and sketch a small foot bridge in Central Park, New York City. Landscapes aren't "my thing" so I need to be forced to consider trees and bushes.
I missed several EDM Challenges when I was on vacation in Quebec. This sketch of an inuit piece of jewelry was finished this week from memory. The background pink color was my addition - the Inuit pin was just the ice cubes, figure, and base.
We met our son and grandson at the Toy Boat Pond this morning in Central Park and I had time to sketch and paint this lamp post while waiting for them to arrive. I actually sketched one of the Park lamp posts once before, but didn't have a bench perfectly positioned to see a symmetrical globe and cover. There was sun when we arrived but the clouds rolled in over the next hour and it is again raining!
There is a new Superheroes Exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art - part original movie costumes and part fashion from the major designers inspired by the Superheroes. My grand daughter Sydney and I saw it Saturday morning when we went to play with the Museum computers in the Education Center and she loved Clark Kent who morphed into Superman - and then back to Clark Kent, so we had to go back with brother Henry the next morning. They were so cute - such little people in that big Museum. All of my grandchildren learned how to walk better in the Temple of Dendur and regularly throw pennies into the pools there and the fountain in the new Greek and Roman Galleries. This is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to spend time with them when they are staying with us during really cold or awful weather in the city.
I had a wonderful relaxing day and can add my daily sketchbook page today when it was done rather than waiting to upload it tomorrow. Today my sketchbook is more a visual journal because I had a leisurely lunch outdoors across from the Jefferson Market Courthouse between ordering a camera at B and H and browsing and buying art books at The Strand.
I debated whether to participate in this challenge again this year. I sketch everyday, but last year in May uploaded each sketch instead of just posting a sketchbook page several times each week. It definitely was more time consuming and I had to force myself to remain free in my choice of subject each day instead of worrying about "a published piece." I finally decided that it might be good for me to again post each day's journal page - they certainly are reflective of a very eclectic art interest and maybe I can break through the "performance anxiety" a little more.
Yesterday I painted a sketch of a townhouse that I love. You can see it from one of the upper floor exhibit galleries on the north side of MoMA - and it is breathtakingly beautiful nestled among two rather plain and uninteresting buildings. I sketched it from the MoMA gallery window earlier this year in my daily Moleskine watercolor sketchbook and posted it with sketches from several museum visits. But I wanted to have a sketch in my NYC "travel" sketchbook as well. The first sketch was done "live" and very quickly. The second was done from several photos that I have.
