It was cool this morning too--78.8 by 5--so I got out to the park, and as I went in the back "turnstile gate", I heard the Kawasemi bird's call from Duck Pond. it was resting on a perch one of the cameramen had set up there for it. Excited, I began sketching.
But the bird flew off the branch onto a rock in the pond. Rats; I'd have to start over. I tried to get the general lines down quickly. This time, when the bird flew to the fountain ropes in the center of the pond, I didn't panic. I had the basic shapes down so I was ok.
Getting the basics down is so necessary and worth it, isn't it? Having been away from the park for a month, I'll have to work at drawing from real life. Anyway.. . Here is today's sketch of Peter and a dragonfly.
After my park visit this morning, I wondered if my son didn't have to go to work today; he was still in bed. Then I remembered I'd tried to come home while it was still cool. It wasn't time to get up yet.
