06.27.1-07.03.11

I have come to realize that 3 drawings is a more successful number each week.

I would rather do 3 successful drawings, than to always have 2 filler.

Although, I will not change the requirements, I will just admit here that 5 good drawings is a difficult task.

This week mini c chicago and I went on a journey, which made for new drawing challenges.

The beach:  the beach is all about the people.  The landscape is important, but capturing the population of the beach is really what gives that place character.  Funnily, if you reference this drawing and one of the blogminic (www.blogminic.com) blog posts, you will see they have almost the same viewpoint.  The difference being that the blogminic photo was taken before the lifeguards had left for the day, so no one was in the water.  Whereas, this drawing was from after they left, and the people swarmed into the water.  Montrose beach was tested to have high bacteria levels this week, hence the no swimming while city lifeguards are there.  I especially enjoyed drawing my heroine at the foreground.  She was moving around a lot, digging, running into the water, throwing sand balls at her brother (who is the boy who buried himself in the sand, and only his head and harms are showing), lots of crouching and play.    And then there is that cute little boy who ran towards and past me with mother in tow.  He was so quick, but I wanted to capture his energy!

 After struggling with how to capture ever moving people, I tried my hand at some seagulls to my left.  They were a cranky bunch.  I became crankier though, although I enjoyed this view, the bugs started attacking me, which is very distracting to my meditative style drawings!

 The last drawing of this week was definitely my fav.  I went to Rosehill Cemetery.  Reminded me so much of Forest Lawn in Buffalo NY.  So tranquil.  Full of trees and a pond!  I sat on the grass enjoying the peace of the space.  Urban cemeteries are amazing places!  So different then everywhere else in the city.