This was so much fun - I went on a sketching meetup with a great group of people, drew the characters and cut them out (except for one I brought with me) on location and then photographed them in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
On
urbandon, you can see closely observed nature from a different part of the world.
I'm thinking there are echoes here and in other places on the web of Baudelaire's "Correspondances"
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles....
Nature is a temple whose living pillars
Sometimes give forth strange perfumes...
The last face card of the recent series was left in the Fragrance Garden at Golden Gate Park. The weather was not conducive to drawing, so I only got what is below . Below was done without putting in a pencil outline, and is more successful as to textures than proportions. Anyway, I though it might be interesting to compare the two.
O tempora! O mores! Edit: Just returned from the post office, where I observed a young man with two almost face-sized faces silkscreened on the posterior of his jeans (this brought a very rude Monty Python song to mind) , a very fit looking woman with a remarkably clear-eyed gaze who had just returned from Antrarctica, and a man who told the clerk that he had attached a stamp to one of his envelopes through an accident. Humanity, go figure.
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