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I also spend a lot of time at the allergist's office, waiting after I have my allergy shots. I tend to sketch a lot of shoes there, since the waiting room is really too small and tightly packed to sketch people. (I find I need a little more distance to sketch people. Here, when they are so close, they tend to notice I'm sketching them, and in the past some have become quite distressed. No one seems to care if I sketch his feet, however.)
I posted this page spread because I think it's fun to see how I worked around the spread from top right of the left page, over left and down, then over to the top left of the right page and down through that page diagonally, almost finishing with the large foot at the bottom of the right page, but then jumping up to the small foot at the top right of the right page. The other reasons I posted this page were a.) it reminds me that I was watching a little bit of drama (the first man I was sketching had an allergic reaction to his shot; he was fine, but they had to take him away to treat him) and, b.) because on my way home from the doctor's office I heard several things on the radio that I jotted down before I got out of the car at home. These are in the center of the spread on the left page and include some news items and the high temperature for the day (later I heard that we reached 65 degrees which is the warmest March 13 for 116 years). I had made the conscious decision to note down a bit more about the world this year; things like temperatures, prices, and gasp, politics. I often don't note those things in my visual journal, but I decided I'd like to see more of that. I want a more complete picture of what I'm living through, beyond cultural things, and rather interesting found dialog. When I do get to my written journal I've got other things I focus on. Could this be that after all these years they are merging? Nope. |
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