Waiters on repeat and moving quickly

Dear Sarah - Day 291 of our daily drawing exchange

Hi Sarah!

I was so taken by your lovely loose gesture drawings that I decided to try something similar. I happened to have my iPad here at the restaurant with me and though the lovely wait staff here are not on repeating loops, turns out they do make a lot of the same movements as they move back and forth between the tables, carrying things, putting stuff on tables, etc.

You likely won’t see waiters in those scribbles, but it’s amazing how tiny moments/suggestions appear, how little we need to draw to capture… something.

I think climbers would be great subjects for this exercise. Up and down, up and down, up and down. Stretch, reach, crouch, bend, contort. Repeat. The locals think we are made and, apparently, refer to us as goats.

Not an inappropriate nickname, really. The only other hairy creatures we see on the rocks are goats.

Climbed all day. Had gelato. Worked a bit more on my paper this evening - it’s coming together slowly but surely. There aren’t enough hours in the day…

Nikki

Hi Nikki,

Well, goat does also mean Greatest of All Time, you know.

I agree that there are not enough hours in the day, and today was an odd one for me. Nothing I had planned worked out, and things that I had not planned took up a lot of my day. I dealt with my frustration by going for a long walk along the E&N Rail line, which is actually pretty inspiring, since you walk right by Trackside Art Gallery, Canada’s largest legal graffiti wall. Half a kilometre of huge paintings on the backs of warehouses. I’ll attach a couple below.

I took some photos of the graffiti, and meant to draw them when I got home, but life conspired to get in the way of doing that. So I followed along with DG as he demonstrated how to draw figures in a moving crowd (another video loop), and then how to draw buildings really fast. Not really fast buildings. He used acrylic markers for the buildings, which I don’t own. I made do with watercolour brush pens. I like the people; the buildings, not so much. All this gestural stuff is hard!

I’m hoping for a less bumpy day tomorrow.

XO S