I returned early from our little wedding expedition to Destin. My wife stayed on for a few days for some much deserved relaxation with her friends.
While waiting at the Pensacola airport I wanted to sketch someone. Places where people sit and wait are great places to sketch.
Trouble was, every time I would get a minute into a sketch, the person would up and leave. I wanted to spend some time on just one person.
- Fat guy sleeping, great! Five lines into it, he wakes up and leaves.
- Lady reading a magazine. She kept changing in her seat, crossing her legs, uncrossing, crossing the other way…jeez! sit still!
- Little kid…hah! forget that!
- Business man on his cell phone. Got the phone and one finger. Then he was up, walking and flailing his arms like a Broadway actor as he talked.
Finally, this young lady sat down across from me and immediately opened a book and started reading. She read non-stop for a solid hour. I sketched for probably half that time and really enjoyed it.
I was able to tweak here and there, erase, re-draw, study her face and hair, and get a pretty good likeness of her.
She looked up over my head a couple of times at the clock. Interestingly, she looked like a totally different person from the front. I suppose that’s to be expected, but having concentrated on her profile for so long, the change to the front angle was surprising.
Anyway, I was happy to have had such a good model after all. It was a fine way to conclude my short little vacation sketch series.
Got another little trip in a couple of weeks. I’ll sketch a bunch there too.
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