An outdoor theatre group was in town for a week and one of their props was this old trailer. I remember these when I was a kid, long before people started driving Winnebagos the size of a barn down our highways.
It’s not the most beautiful trailer, and I didn’t create a particularly beautiful sketch of it, but memories are contained within and I hope the sketch conjours a few of your own.
Stillman & Birn Alpha (8×5), Platinum 3776
Our next monthly sketchcrawl (June 19) should be fantastic. We’re holding it in conjunction with an event that’s held every other year at Galerie Louise-Carrier in Levis. In addition to the gallery’s exhibition of nature artworks, the artists of those works will be on site and other activities will take place in a park area next to the gallery.
I went two years ago and they had art demonstrations, acrobats, activities for kids, and a woman doing trick horse riding. It was a real circus atmosphere and very much a target-rich environment for sketchers. if you’re interested in drawing architecture, the entire neighborhood can be your playground as the gallery is in the older part of Levis and the architecture is stunning.
You can get more information on the event from the Croquistes de Quebec website or the Louise-Carrier gallery website. Whatever you do, don’t miss this one. Bring a lunch, your pointy devices and some paper and be prepared for a great day.
I live on a part of the Earth where you can go into forests and find wild ferns hanging out as part of the forest understory. So much so, in fact, that fern leaves, before they’ve unrolled, are collected and sold as Fiddlehead greens in our grocery stores during late spring. This is novel to a guy who grew up in Arizona.
Of course you can also find them kept in captivity, kept by those with greener thumbs than mine. There were a bunch of them in the same place as the Chinese statues I talked about in my last blog post and I drew one of them as they live in really nice clay pots. I should have posted the sketch with the statue sketch but I forgot all about it. I post it here to make up for that omission.
Stillman & Birn Delta (8×10), Platinum 3776, Platinum Carbon Black
When they were building it, some of the cynics referred to the grandiose building that was to be Ste-Foy City Hall as the “Taj Mahal.” It really was on an over-the-top building just to house the mayor and his court. And the irony is that it wasn’t too many years later that all the smaller municipalities were merged with Quebec City and city governance moved, principally into the Quebec City Hall.
I’m not sure what the function of the building is these days but one thing it does is to keep the rain off a couple of beautiful Chinese statues. It’s just as unclear why these statues exist in Quebec City but our group took advantage of them to do some sketching during yet another rainy day. It was a fun days and I hope you like my result.
Stillman & Birn Delta (8×10), Platinum 3776, Platinum Carbon Black
We can’t catch a break with the weather it seems but Yvan and I sat under an awning in open-air atrium at the museum and sketched very large potted plants. This area becomes a restaurant when weather permits and these huge pots will be moved around to decorate the area. I was struck by the fact that while these huge planters were very similar to one another, none of them were exactly alike.
Stillman & Birn Alpha (8×5), Platinum 3776, Platinum Carbon Black