Sunday, July 16, 2017

Stuhr Museum Visit

                Here are some sketches and drawings I did at the 4th of July parade through Railroad Town at the Stuhr Museum on our trip to central Nebraska. Hats off to all the family we saw and the grand way they entertained us.                               There were reenactors of all types in this prairie reconstruction and the parade. This fella was reading an historical speech after the band had played. Some of these speeches were well worth hearing these days.                                                                                                                                                This little sketch was an attempt to catch the play between the white and black of the image. It was not the first sketch of the day, however, but just something of interest.    The deal for me is to not get sidetracked with all the stuff around the image that catches my eye. Not always easy, but maybe I managed in this case.
           


This caboose, was at the end of the run- it  was the last drawing of the day. We were gathered around talking just before leaving Rail Road Town.  But the caboose was there, sorta begging me to put it to paper, so .....



                                     
          In the scene above I liked the figures in front of the tree and how the shadows played across the Main Street with the Depot sitting across the grass.  Not sure now if this was done before or after the next.  It was done with a ball point pen right from the get go. Little if any pencil involved, in a small Canson sketch pad - 5" x9" format.                                                 
   

I had brought my sketch pad, against my better judgement- this was, after all, 'sposta be sort of a family time you know...  It was the 4th of July parade, with a band and speeches!  And there were too many people around -  don't wan'a make a scene! But eventually I broke down, opened up the small pad, and pulled out a pencil.  This was the result.  Started with pencil and finished later with ball point pen in the 5x9 Canson pad. Nothing fantastic, but a good memory, some good practice, it kept me out of trouble, and gave some folk something different to talk about!

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