A Cool Museum on a Hot Evening

Our group

It was nice to be able to sketch in the very cool Museum of Fine Arts Houston on a very warm summer night. And we had an excellent turnout for this sketchout. Welcome to all the new sketchers.

Indah brought her IPAD and her Apple pen and did a sketch in Procreate. You can see that in our header. Always nice to see someone using different media.

Now the first thing you encounter in the Law building is the very large Ernesto Neto interactive installation in the center exhibit space. Kids and adults alike were having a ball. But HOW to sketch something like that?

Just to give you an idea what we were up against...

Susan took a pretty direct approach. She chose to sketch from down in the lobby looking slightly upward.

Susan

Judith sketched from the same area. Her two versions are a reminder that adding elements after are permissible. She added a little color in Procreate that makes the people pop out.

Judith

Maggie also drew from this angle, but she soon chose a slightly different approach to this complicated subject.

Maggie

I went around the other side of the sculpture where people entered for the full experience.

Chris

Lisa chose a more vertical view.

Lisa

Rebecca also drew from the entrance side. Her sketch is very dimensional and the sculpture floats on the page.

Lisa

Chetna

The little figure on the side of Chetna's sketch is a rain god she discovered in one of the other galleries.

Megan

Kirby

And finally there was Michael who simply worked in plain pencil. He did manage to get really good contrast and capture the floating effect. Nice shadows too.

Michael

Some sketchers chose to sketch the museum building or the sculpture garden. Isabel drew

the lobby of the Beck.

Isabel

Astrid, Tami and Vivian drew stairways in the Kinder.

Astrid

Tami

Vivian

Fahed and Indah drew the sculpture garden.

Fahed

Indah

The rest of the group went into various galleries and drew from the museum collection.

Jeff and Akil found a boat.

Jeff

Akil

Kim found some totems.

Kim

Decha and Payling found some interesting sculptures.

Decha

Decha

Payling

Rita found a lion that interested her.

Rits

Olinda was visiting us again from Dallas. She drew a collection of images.

Olinda

We had our throw down in the lobby. What a collection of images!

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FIFA Fanfest

The group minus Michael Jap

Some hardy souls braved the heat and the crowds to go to the FIFA fanfest. Susan reports that it was, indeed, hot but there was shade and some water available.

Joel

Joel sat at the barbecue stand and sketched the main stage. He was interested in getting in that enormous roof.

Jeffrey Whit

Jeffrey spotted the huge ball on the way to the venue in front of the stadium. Once inside he sketched the team jerseys and the Michelob stands. ( by Susan's report every 20 feet)

Lucia

Lucia sat with Joel and Michael to draw the red umbrellas. You can see Joel there on the left.

Then she drew, what else? Another Michelob stand.

Lucia

Chetna

Chetna used colored pencil to draw the Esphera installation sponsored by the Johnson Space Center. She reported that the inside was very cool.

Susan

Susan tells me that she arrived early. So she did some sketching at the meetup point on Emancipation Avenue. The giant boot completes the scene.

Susan

Once inside she drew the main stage and one of the musicians. She also drew a Michelob stand and a popsicle cart.

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Return to Cameron Marketplace

 

Our group

It's always nice to have a good turnout for a repeat trip to any location. It's especially nice to see familiar faces. And, of course, we always welcome new sketchers and encourage them to bring friends.

The developers of the Cameron Marketplace took a cavernous space and divided it into unique shops using old boxcars. There's a lot to see.

Peter

Peter's sketch gives you some idea of the whole space and tackles that perspective.

Several sketchers hung around the coffee shop to people watch.

Veronika

Judith

Paul

Paul

Jacklynn

Carlos

Others spread out and drew the various shops or the structure of the building itself.

Cody

Chris Pratt - a mural on a wall

Erin- the sewing shop

Aiden

Sam

Janice

Mark

Another group went out front and drew the building from the outside or drew the surroundings.

Susan

Susan - the view from Cameron looking downtown

Vivian- the bright red doors in back

Heather- looking across the street

Peter - Peter managed to capture both buildings

Jeff did a little of both outside and inside

Lisa was interested in the older building

Brittany was drawn to the bright red doors.

There were five of us who were drawn to the very complicated building sitting next door.

It was the original Maxwell House Coffee plant, but before that the front building was a Ford Motor assembly plant for Model T's. It was a difficult draw and we all took different approaches. You can see Shaw Dou's renditon in the header.

Monica went for loose watercolor and large shapes

Carlos painted wet-in-wet

Marie

Chris...I decided to concentrate on the tops of the structures

We convened for the throwdown at the back of the building.

And afterwards a group of us went to lunch at Mandola's Deli, an East End classic.

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