Day Eighteen of Thirty

Instead of having our Rainbow Artist's July meeting at our regular venue, we went to the Rio Grande Community Garden in the North Valley of Albuquerque; one of our members has a row there (they have rows, rather than plots; makes it easier to irrigate). It is a charming spot and we had snacks and the director of the Garden spoke to us of it's history and mission. The sketches above are some that I did after we broke up and went into the garden, and the photo below is roughly the area that I sketched. The flies were pretty bad, so I gave up early and walked around and took photos, but was proud of myself for sketching (which is my least favorite art endeavor!) as much as I did. Jackie is planning to make some kind of collage that can be hung at the garden from all of our sketches.