This week I enjoyed another great session of #streetviewworldtour - and had lots of fun drawing convenience stores around the world.
A guest artist @ajamesdraws was talking through some of his favorite sketchers and how he builds a scene when he draws, and an explanation of his interesting lines and curved views (“just be a good, slightly drunken uncle at the wedding - dancing confidently and wildly”) got me thinking about a quote that I often visit - from Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons:
“The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”So after that great speech about the drunken uncle I tried to think less about the results and experiment more - I used some new texture tools and carved some stamps on the go - not all my moves worked but I surely had fun dancing!
If you are not familiar - A Street View World Tour is a fun, no-pressure gathering hosted by Jenny Adam and Eleanor Doughty via Gage Academy. You can learn more about these monthly free events and about these locations at the links above.
My previous participations include a trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine where I was the guest artist, Drawing Sky Holes, Kenya, Boats, Night Life, Hawaiian Foliage, Light and Shadow, and Japan, Ohio, Arizona and Taipei. (I am quite sure that I participated in a few more but I am not sure I ever posted about them - will try to find and add to this collection!)
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