The weekend after my Posca workshop the NYC Urban Sketchers scheduled sketching the Elephant Migration that I had sketched the week before. I really didn't want to sketch them again, but my friend, Susan wanted to go. She convinced me to go into the city with her...but my plan was to sketch the surrounding area, not the elephants. We got there really early because I knew how crowded it was the week before. Well, once I saw them all in a line with out a huge crowd, I had to do one sketch...right? It ended up being a parade of elephants across a double page spread in one of my smaller sketchbooks. Sketching all the elephants and the area around them took a lot of time.
OK, I was done with the elephants! Looking around I was attracted to the yellow signs around Serafina, a popular restaruant which was constantly busy.
Around 3:00 we gathered together for our "show and tell." There were about 40 sketchers, so it took quite a while to go through everyone. One of our sketchers sold one of her elephant sketches to a tourist.
Some of the sketch groups do a "throw down" where each person selects one sketch to put down on the ground to be viewed. We walk around our circle of sketchers and show our work. I like our way of doing it better. People can show multiple sketches if they want, you know who the sketch belongs to, and the sketcher can tell a bit about what they did and the materials they used. Here I am showing my elephants.
Below is a photo of the group of elephants that were my models for the day.
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