Like most, I love spring. The weather is warming, the light grows warmer too, and flowers are bursting with color. It's a great season for plein air work, regardless of one's medium. Many Saturdays I join the sketchers group for a few hours of outdoor drawing and painting. Our group is predominantly watercolorists but several are pastel painters and at least one sketches in colored pencils.
Around Des Moines there are abundant locales for sketching. In winter and early spring we've spent profitable times in Waterworks Park and across the road at Gray's Lake. The Botanical Center on the bank of the river is another favorite. But this week we went to another park, the big greenspace that surrounds West Des Moines' public buildings, in particular the Library. There's a small, graceful lake and sculptures here and there, but at the end is a beautiful footbridge. I sat on a bench at the end of the bridge and sketched.
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| "Footbridge at the Library," wc and ink on paper, 6x8 |
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