One of the great things about sketching is how portable it is. You can sketch virtually anywhere, with a bit of discretion. Last week I sketched in the program while our local symphony played. There was ample light from the proscenium and the music (Holst's masterpiece "The Planets") was transcendent. No one minded, of course.
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"At the Airport, Waiting for Food," wc/ink
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Another place one can sketch is in an eatery. One of the fun things I've done over the years is sketch in a very small pocket book using watercolor and ink. I
posted about that a couple of years ago. This is another sketch I made some years back while waiting for food in an airport. It's actually a lower corner of my trip diary, We were enroute to visit family in Seattle.
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"Sarge's," wc/ink
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This second sketch is another from a trip, this time to New York. A favorite neighborhood place on the east side of Manhattan is Sarge's, a fairly traditional New York kind of place that we used to visit quite often. Both of these were sketched quickly with permanent ink and colored either immediately or shortly after eating.
Sketching is a simple way to make visual notes that can become part of a visual library for later work.
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