For several years, thanks to the initiative and steady organization of a sketch friend Carmen, I've been able to sketch regularly with a very small group of sketchers. The core of the group has its roots in Casey U3A but we've added other friends over the years. Where possible we sketch on-location somewhere in our local area but on the most recent sketchmeet day there was a severe storm warning so our venue was a cafe. On this occasion I took a dozen of J's wonderful life-like food fridge magnets for us to draw. We played a "speed sketch" game where we had 2 minutes to draw a magnet before passing it onto another sketcher. Two minutes is a long enough time to draw one of these magnets but doing 12 for 2 minutes each in quick succession required serious brain work...for a group of mostly Seniors!
Cafe sketching will take a back seat as we head into sketching outdoors in what I hope will be a good summer.
I decided to add the splash of watercolour to the page later but I'm not sure if that was an improvement or not. Here is the group of magnets I took for us to draw.
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