To celebrate the first anniversary of the Seattle Urban
Sketchers ad hoc Friday sketchers group, we met at the same place we sketched a
year ago: Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton. (We had a much larger turnout than the original five who showed
up last year – yay for Friday sketchers!) At this festive, popular event, local
architects get together with the Sheraton’s bakers to create elaborately
detailed, often-animated gingerbread houses (although “house” is clearly an
understatement).
Last year I deliberately chose the less-extravagant back side of Alice in Wonderland’s
Castle so that I wouldn’t be overwhelmed by details. This year I took a
different approach to dodge the same issue: I stood behind the endless line of
people passing between the sweet sculptures and myself, focusing more on the
viewers. My first sketch was of a fabulous ship with the theme “I Saw a Ship
a-Sailing.” Then I moved to the other side of the exhibit to sketch “Hickory-Dickory
Dock.”
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