January at the Museum of Natural Science

 

The group

As you can see from the photo, we had quite a good turnout for a Tuesday evening at the Museum of Natural Science. It looks like it was a fun evening. Because the group was so large, rather than try to stitch together a series of photos for the throwdown, Judith made a little movie. I thought you might like to see it first. You really get a good view of everyone's work.

Of course, lots of people went right to the dinosaurs, but Susan chose the Cabinet of Curiosities that you see in the header.

Here are a few of the sketchers with their drawings:

Maggie

Britt

Mike 

Jacklynn

Amber

Heather

Margo

Paul

Peter was busy. He completed several sketches.

Peter

Peter

Richard

Judith

Joel

Dawn

Michael

Alicia

Tami

Jeff

Inda

Aaliyah

Brianna

A visitor from Guatemala

I believe this is his as well

And we had a young sketcher join us. A guest of Paul's I believe.

A young sketcher

Finally, everyone assembled for the throwdown.

the throwdown

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Sketching at the Museum of Natural Science

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The Group

There was a nice turnout for a rare Tuesday evening sketchout at the Museum of Natural Science. It was billed as a chance to draw dinosaurs and that was the focus for many sketchers, but as you can see from Susan De Courcy's sketch in the header, there were other things to draw.

Richard Scruggs

Richard chose the T-Rex pursuing the Allosaurus.

Matthew

New participant, Matthew, chose graphite to do any unusual view of the Triceratops. (who for some reason was wearing booties- repairs maybe?)

Veronika

Veronika did two dinosaurs in pen and ink.

Bruce

Bruce did a full page spread for this very tall guy. I believe Bruce was experimenting with the water-soluable graphite.

Michael

Michael's color sketches show how the colored lighting on the exhibits really brought the creatures to life.

Jenniffer

Jenniffer dubbed the Deinonychus the "kickboxing dinosaur".  Chances are the poor guy was 

defending himself.

Chris

My dinosaur was also bathed in interesting lighting. I was just busy trying to get all those bones in the right place.

Judith

Judith used markers to capture the T Rex in color, but of course she was a fly on the wall for all the interesting conversations going on around her.

Francisco

Francisco had time for a sort of logo for the evening.

Here are some of the other things people drew:

Veronika

Some ancestors: both ours and our friend the armadillo.

Susan

The head of the huge Mastadon and some overheard comments.

Judith

Judith at the very mind-boggling Cabinet of Curiosities.

Considering we were there for a rather abbreviated sketchout, the sketchers got a lot done.

Here's the throwdown.

The throwdown

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