Beaucoup de Bastille Day Sketches

The Bastille Day sketching expedition was a lot of fun. I started off with watercolors, tackling the musicians and one of the ladies listening to the music.

Scavenger Hunt: Fire Hydrant, Bike Pile, Musician, (and a little shoe distraction)

I drew several fire hydrants, thinking I would get a better one, but I think I just got more fire hydrants.

The most challenging item so far, has been the bike pile.

The best thing about the bike pile is it's near Fluevog shoes and they were gracious enough to let a few of us sketch inside. Their shoes, in all the different shapes and colors were really fun to draw.

This next shoe, was designed by Urban Sketcher Correspondent,  Zaza . You, too, can enter their Open Source shoe design contest and maybe get a prize and a shoe named after you. I'm already imagining 'The Vicky', winning enough to buy a gorgeous pair of sandals that I have my eyes on.

We go out to hear a lot of live music, so I sketch musicians often, but I thought I'd post a slightly different one, and test the rules to this hunt.  I'm trying to learn how to use Brushes on my iphone and this is an early attempt. What do you think, is iphone sketching legit?

By my count, that was 12 for me, narrowing the gap to Katura:)

Scavenger Hunt: Item 9, Musician

So I was headed to meet a friend downtown last weekend, and the big city fair along the riverbank had very catchy rock music broadcasting off the stage. I knew the song, hummed along. I knew the next song, hummed along. I knew the third song, and started singing along, and started wondering whether it's common to have Tom Petty cover bands in this town?

And then I got up close enough to the stage, and realized that it was actually Tom Petty himself, singing away. So I drew him--tiny and from the back--while I caught the tail end of his performance (from the free side of the fence.) Been humming "Freefalling" all week.