I went to see Birds in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum as I do every year. Many great paintings & sculpture & carving this year. Plus an exhibit of photos of the artists' studios with comments from each which was very interesting. Downtown Wausau was hopping on Wed evening with live jazz and lots of outdoor seating and easy social distancing. Thursday morning I had coffee at La Prima which has very good coffee and I just had to draw the faux English call box on the corner in front.
I was lucky enough to be able to spend time on State Street earlier this year, where I tried to capture the art that grew out of the Black Lives Matter protests. I'm sharing a couple of them with the group.
I hope that the art is being saved somewhere. It documents an important story.
We have decided that due to Covid 19 and safe social distancing we will not be meeting indoors for the winter months as we normally did. Nothing is normal now. We did schedule a date for October at the UW Arboretum. (Oct. 11, 1-3pm - as always see Events Calendar for details)
I may schedule a date at short notice IF the weather is unseasonably warm before spring. Just have to play it by ear.
Also for those following this blog by email if you see a post about an upcoming sketching event please click on Events and then click again on that date. All the pertinent information about that date should be there. If not please leave a comment under the post as I check for comments. My email (dgwafer@gmail.com) is listed under How to Participate so feel free to email me if you have questions. There is also a calendar on our FB page. We don't want any sketchers to miss out on a sketching date!! The more sketchers the better we like it!!! Pat
Finally some dry weather for sketching outdoors! It was great to see everyone even if we were masked and 6 ft apart. It is always inspiring to see what others have been sketching. Hopefully we can meet in October for one more outdoor date this year. We've decided indoor venues are out of the question for the foreseeable future.
Many thanks to Ruth for being our scheduler for the last few years!! She has come up with lots of new and interesting places for meeting up. She will be moving back to NY next year and will be sorely missed and we hope she will keep in touch and post some sketches from there. I'll be doing the scheduling starting next year and as always welcome ideas for new places.
If anyone would like to post photos on our blog let me know and I can either post them for you or show you how to do it your self - we love to see the urban sketches you're doing. Also you can post them on our Facebook page. Ruth had the great idea for doing some urban sketching this winter based on a topic of our choice so I'll be doing some posts about that over the winter on this blog and on the FB page. So stay tuned and keep sketching!!
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| Ruth, Rebecca & Gretchen |
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| Cindy, Deborah, Tsela & Ruth |
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| Pat |
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| Mary |
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| Jean, Skipper & Cindy |
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| Some of our sketches |
Hello All,
Just a short note to remind you that our September meetup is this coming Sunday at Hoyt Park on the west side of Madison. I have the following Sunday unplanned so I will reschedule if we are rained out. Join us if you can, post your sketch by putting it on our Facebook group page or send a jpeg to Pat and she'll put it on the blog, pwafer@charter,net
Last Sunday I rode my bike to the Edgewood Market on Monroe Street, perfect weather to sketch and eat a taco.
Keep sketching everyone!
Ruth
