Apatosaurus

 The NYC Urban Sketchers met at the American Museum of Natural History last weekend. It was a cold, snowy day which I'm sure added to the number of people seeking a fun diversion for the day. I think we sketched there 2 years ago. Here is the version I did back then. I usually head right up to the dinosaurs before it gets super crowded. I tucked myself into a corner where I had a view of the entire apatosaurus. His tail was too long and didn't fit on the double-page spread. While I was painting a little boy came over and looked at my palette and then my painting and said, "You didn't paint that. It doesn't have the same colors." I guess he was looking at the brighter colors in my palette which just didn't go with the dinosaur. 

Several other sketchers ended up painting nearby and it was fun to see their versions when we all met up for show-and-tell later.

Dinosaurs

One of my reasons for getting to the Museum of Natural History before I was meeting everyone was I knew they were going to be sketching something different than I wanted to start with. I was not going to the museum without sketching a dinosaur. So I raced up to the dino floor and set up my chair against the wall. It is a good thing they are so tall because after a while the room got really crowded and the bottom of the dinosaurs were pretty much blocked. I did one in watercolors. I couldn't fit all of allosaurus on my page. lol

I had a little time left so I pulled out my Elegant Writer pen to do the apatosaurus. He definitely didn't fit on the page. I painted the two dinosaurs in about an hour and then headed off to find the sketchers on another floor.

The day 2 entry for my "fake" journal "Tracy at the Ranch" can be found here:

http://tracyattheranch.blogspot.com