Portland Farmer's Market with Maine College of Art

 I spent a day in my beloved old home city of Portland, 

at the downtown Farmer's Market, 

sketching with a Maine College of Art Workshop. 

Above, not the original, as the raw sketch was 

too full of fast, scribbly lines. 

 Also a sketch from the sketch. 

Sketching with a class gave me the bravado to plunk myself 

& my little stool down in the midst of a sea of 

moving people, colors, & sounds. 

What a great way to slow down & to focus 

on one subject at a time.

If anyone was peeking over my shoulder, I didn't notice. 

This is the actual on-location, raw sketch.

Our Lady of Victories, is the monument in Monument Square,      

created to commemorate lives lost during the Civil War. 

Every Wednesday she looks down on the market below. 

I was looking up at her while eating at a sidewalk café table 

on the edge of the sidewalk.

Also on the edge of the sidewalk was Myron 

playing blues harmonica & singing lyrics, 

some traditional, some invented on the spot. 

He played well to the young children

& made them dance. He made me laugh. 

That's a foot operated tambourine!