Saturday, October 10, 2015

#inktober #inktober2015 - Day 10 & Pumpkinfest

I am presently up in Damariscotta, Maine visiting family just in time for the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regata. While walking this morning I took a few photos of some of the artists at work designing their pumpkins. Usually most of them are decorated on Friday, but except for a few diehards yesterday who set up and worked under tents, the rain kept most of the artists from working. These artists were out there at 7 am working on their designs.





My Inktober sketch is of one of the artist working on her pumpkin.


I just couldn't leave that sketch without color...especially with the trees starting to change. As I continued walking along Main Street I captured a few of the other artists too. Some I couldn't sketch because of the crowds of people downtown.




This lady was setting an eyeball into her pumpkin face.


Here is her pumpkin later much further along.



This one was a sea theme.


Sunflowers were cut into this pumpkin.






7 comments:

  1. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors you made.
    Interesting post. Makes me realize fall is here even though our leaves have not begun to turn.

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  2. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors you made.
    Interesting post. Makes me realize fall is here even though our leaves have not begun to turn.

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  3. Such fun sketches, Joan! This event must have been a blast!

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  4. People are really serious about this pumpkin event arent' they...amazing. We have nothing like that here. Love your paintings of the various participants, you get movement into your drawings :-)

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  5. Thanks Julie, Tina, and Ann. They have a lot of fun activities all weekend long. Monday is the Pumpkin Regata and boat races. All the boats are made from pumpkins.

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  6. Looks like a fun event and you captured the action well in your sketches!

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  7. Thanks Jo. The whole thing is a lot of fun.

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