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Neighborhood Sketches

5/11/2020

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A week into self-isolating, I took a small sketchbook (Stillman & Birn Alpha, 3.5x5.5) and a couple of HI-TEC-C Coleto multi-pens on a walk one afternoon and tried to quickly sketch a house as I was walking (top left), and then quickly sketched another as I stood on the sidewalk. Prior to that I had been self-conscious about sketching on my walks, but now I am just that weird neighbor and I'm okay with it.
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On that first outing I made three sketches, so the self-consciousness melted away pretty quickly.
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I sketched in the rain that day!
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The red trees were an accident but I went with it.
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I was trying to show the scale of these trees - they are huge! 
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Included something I overheard a neighbor say. She was on the phone so I only heard half of the conversation. And we'll never know what happened to the person in question!
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Sketched more than houses on this long walk.
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I liked the accidental red trees so much I made some pink trees on purpose.
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Finally sketched my own house! Look at the lower right - that brown squiggle - that's me being honest about having a dead yew in my front yard.
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Over the past few weeks I've been sketching less on walks but taking more pictures and videos that I post in my Instagram stories (@elizabethalley). But I still take my sketchbook and pens with me just in case!
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