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| 5/10/13 Platinum Carbon ink, watercolor, Stillman & Birn sketchbook |
With ideal – no, pluperfect
– sketching conditions (for me, that means wearing a T-shirt and sandals but
not breaking a sweat while sitting in the sunshine), a good turnout of Seattle
sketchers showed up for an ad hoc meet-up in the Center of the Universe.
The Fremont Troll has long been on my list of
favorite Seattle sights to show out-of-towners. The Troll, who lives under the
Aurora Bridge, was created in 1990 by Ross Whitehead, Steve Badanes, Will
Martin and Donna Walter. When
I started my sketch, the only other person there was sketcher/photographer
Gordon, who climbed behind the Troll’s shoulder to take a picture of me across
the street. But by the time I was finishing up less than an hour later, I had lost
track of the number of tourists who came by – some in taxis with the meter
still running; others on tour buses; still others on foot. I know the Troll is
supposed to be scary, ominously clutching a hapless VW Bug. But as I sketched
him, I realized he has very human hands and seems more curious than scary.
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