Friday, May 23, 2014
This morning started with a giant cup of green tea at
Victor’s in Redmond. I love the dark
colors and atmosphere of Victor’s so I knew it would be a good place to
sketch. I found a table in front of the
espresso bar and sketched for an hour and a half.
Something that I have found really interesting about urban
sketching is people sometimes forget you are there. A highly botoxed woman and her friend she
hadn’t seen for twenty years sat down next to me and at first they were pretty
conscious I was there. But after a few
minutes they started talking about their struggles with alcoholism and all of
these highly personal events in their lives. I felt kind of bad because in a
way it was eavesdropping, but there is a reason I never get bored sketching and
it is people like this who keep it interesting.
After sketching at Victor’s my mom and I headed down to
Seattle to sketch at the Chihuly Exhibit.
I was excited to have her along because she is an artist herself and it
is always fun to compare sketches and viewpoints. This was my third time going to the exhibit
but sketching it was completely different.
I sketched a few of his big art pieces and was completely in awe of how
complex and beautiful they are.
It also amazed me how different my mom’s sketches and mine
were. We were sitting on the same bench,
looking at the same things, but they were completely different. I think this is an illustration (literally)
of the way God makes each person unique.
We are both creative people and we both interpret the scenes in front of
us in our own ways. When people sketch
the same thing in different ways it shows their interpretation of the truth and
beauty in front of them.
(Mine is the first one, my mom's is the second)
I also got to spend the rest of my night with these two goofs. Which is always fun.
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