The Main Event was sketching the Essex Market.
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| Rainbo's Fish at the Essex Market |
The morning sketch was at Rainbo's Market where they had just set up for the day when I started.
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| The Heritage Meat Shop |
After lunch we had time for a quick sketch. This took 20 minutes. He seemed to be cleaning the meat slicing machine. Working fast can be exhilarating.
I got the the Lower East Side early and had time to kill. I started sketching at McDonalds and soon had an interested volunteer. Dave sat for a quick portrait sketch and sat perfectly still. He seemed pleased with the result (always a risk when you sketch strangers).
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| Dave sat patiently |
All the rest of the work was done at Dr. Sketchy's. It's not Urban Sketching in the strictest sense but it's a lot of fun and challenging. The theme was Russian Fairy Tales and the costumes were appropriate to the subject. They gave a special shout-out to Urban Sketchers thanks to Pat's initiative and we gave out USk cards to people who said they were interested.
It was a great day and our last sketch together for 2014. Hello 2015!
