More than anything, this post is an X on the calendar to indicate when it got too cold to sketch outdoors in Quebec City. It’s snowing these days and not very friendly to street sketchers, particularly an Arizona-bred sketcher who hates being cold.
I take the bus everywhere and our system is great because I can sit at home and know exactly when the bus will get to my stop which means I don’t have to stand in the cold. But, for reasons I can’t explain, the other day I headed to the bus stop without checking my app and sure enough, just as I arrived, the bus was pulling away.
That meant I had ten minutes of standing around. As luck would have it there was a small bulldozer sitting on the corner of the street so I decided to draw it. I did this quick sketch of it and nearly finished when the bus came along.
This was done in a cheap 4×6 notebook and so wasn’t suitable for color but I added some anyway. The end result looked like this.. my last outdoor sketch of the year. It’s museum time for me.
And so it begins (or ends). Sorry to hear it! I thought outdoor sketching weather was over here too, but ironically, just yesterday, I was able to stand outside and sketch for 10 minutes, and I was really comfortable. That was probably a fluke, though. “Scattered showers” are predicted for the rest of the week.
Yes, and it seems a bit early even for us. The cold is expected but we just got 6-8″ of snow and it’s only mid-November. Montreal just announced that it’s the earliest they’ve had to do snow removal. Anyways, I’m getting acquainted with my snowblower again 🙂 I’m heading to the museum this morning to sketch in the dark 🙂