Saturday Afternoon

Downstairs at the National Museum of the American Indian there was a big room with a circle for performances. There was a big screen with a dance video playing. Around the room were glass cases containing mannikins with beautiful outfits used for the Indian dances. I only had enough time to sketch two of them.

The first one was for a Yakama Girl's Fancy Shawl Dance. It had such beautiful designs in the dress and the shawl.

This is for the Tlingit Ku'eex Entrance Dance.

As usual we headed to a nearby restaurant for a show and tell. The sketchers always sketch each other. Here are a few friends that were across the table from me.

Going home on the LIRR I didn't plan to sketch but I couldn't resist this couple curled up and napping.

Saturday Morning

Saturday was a very cold day again, but I wanted to go to the city and meet up with the NYC Urban Sketchers. We had an indoor location, the National Museum of the American Indian. It is a nice museum in an old customs house near Battery Park. I went in by myself on the LIRR. Snow was predicted for later in the afternoon and it was another very cold day. There were a lot of people on the train going in...and many of them in my car seemed to be related to each other. I sketched this group that was across the aisle facing me.

Inside the museum I was attracted to these artifacts from the Kayapo territory. I'm not quite sure how this outfit is worn since there didn't seem to be any place to see out, but I loved the texture of it.

The museum building itself is gorgeous. I sat inside the rotunda to sketch part of it. It was so detailed and impossible to get much of it onto one sketchbook page. I started this before lunch and finished it when we came back from lunch.

Meanwhile it was snowing in the city...cold and snowy...maybe about 2 inches fell before it stopped.

More tomorrow.