Other people's laundry

Last week was another great sketch date. At the Clean Rite laundr-o-mat we sketched while people did their laundry, napped, talked on their phones and waited.

It was also another opportunity to practice with pencil and liquid graphite.

Brooklyn Museum and more

Last Saturday, on a cold and gray morning, we met at the entrance to the Brooklyn Library. Unlike most of the people we see in bars, train stations or other public spaces, the folks in the library were a stationary bunch. Unlike the sporadic back and forth movement and casual conversations of our usual "sketchees" it was inspiring to see young kids with parents and grandparents working on homework, tutors going over assignments with anxious parents and the plain sight of  a civic space being  used for the common good and the education of the public (no ads, no fees, no exclusion).

Boy on phone while mother is tutored

Grandfather looking over homework. Tutor reviewing homework.

"this is how it's done..."

We veered off to The Brooklyn Botanical garden

BONSAI!

Pete's tablecloth sketches

After a late start, we began rolling in to Pete's tavern for an afternoon of sketching. As the morning turned to afternoon the sketches migrated from our sketchbooks to the tablecloths. Luckily, the tables were covered with paper, the perfect sketching media.