Laurie, Jeanne and I met at 10am, sketchbooks in hand. Unlike the usual warm sunny weather we have in Tucson, it was cloudy and 65 degrees. We survived just fine.
Below is the sign welcoming us to the zoo.
This is Jeannie between the rhinos and giraffe's deciding which one to sketch.
Below is a photo of Laurie who was trying ink sketches in an effort to sketch faster. She sure did do some neat fast sketches.
These are the giraffe's I sketched using my travel watercolor set. One giraffe is eating at the human provided feeder and the other giraffe is also eating from a slightly different human provider.
Laurie came over to us with her sketchbook and shared her avian contribution to her sketch. After we got done laughing, I took a photo for prosperity.....who would believe!
I noticed this tortoise and stopped to sketch in pencil. Silly me, I thought it would be easy to sketch, how fast can a tortoise move! Believe me, they can move pretty fast. I like how they literally lumber along, no matter what is in the way, they just climb over it.
I found Laurie and Jeanne sitting by the pond enjoying the ducks and flamingo's. Flamingo's have this funny habit of standing on one leg. Even though you only see four legs, there are three Chilean Flamingo's there. Colored pencils on moleskine.
After Laurie and Jeanne left, I found this rhino that really did stand and wait to be sketched. I did this in pencil in my moleskine and found rubbing in the graphite made a nice rhino-looking skin.
Some art students from U of A stopped by to see what we were doing and took this photo.
Speaking of talking, people visiting the zoo had no problem coming over to comment about us sketching. They all said they liked it. Thank goodness I am over my sketching in public fear.
It was another wonderful sketchcrawl day.
Visit Laurie's blog to see her neat ink sketches. Jeanne does not have a blog yet.
12 comments:
Looks like it was a lot of fun and you all got some memorable drawings done. Thanks for sharing! ~Sharon
Teri it looks like a great day was had by all. I'm impressed by your animal sketches! To have them looking so realistic and drawing from life to boot! - Well done!!
Teri! THESE ARE FABULOUS and everyone looks like they had such a great time!!! I LOVE YOUR GIRAFF and tortoise!!! SUPER job on all of them!!!
What an awesome day we had! Glad you remembered a camera because I love the post to your blog documenting the day!! Your drawings came out great. Actually, I think it was only in the 50's!!!
What lovely drawings and the giraffe patterns are *gorgeous*! What a cool experience for both your art and building friendships.
hey there teri, it sure does look as if you all enjoyed it a lot.
I want to compliment you on the giraffe patterns as well. and the tortoise as well, and that dangerous looking rhino as well.
great stuff teri. are you going to work any up into studio works?
thanks for responding so quick and as you can see now on my blog the other taggee is val of http://valgalart.blogspot.com/
look foward to seeing your post.
love scott
i like them all but my favorites are the giraffes and the rhino.
what a nice day you all had!
oh i just love your giraffes! great job
it sure looks like you all had fun despite the weather
hey i wanna visit az :)
-patty
looks like you guys had a great time! Lovely drawings!!
teri,
loved your watercolor of the giraffes and of the flamingos! beautiful!! made me have the urge to just leave work and go to the zoo! quite impressive!!!
It looks like you all three had a great day! I can just imagine you all wandering over the zoo, having so much fun you are the envy of all the other visitors... plus you have all these great sketches to remember it by! :-)
Thanks for writing about your day. It was fun--almost like I was there too! You guys ended up with some fine sketches of your zoo friends!
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