Me And First Born Pen and ink by Meera Rao
Sometimes I wonder what’s the point of sketching and then recording it in the blog. Doing the covid diaries, I have recorded moments that looking back now, I could have easily forgotten and dug up memories that brought me joy. Now publishing in the blog after two and three years later brings some amazement to me! This was a memory from years ago and yet now fresh - and refreshed again !
Week 20 Smithsonian Engagement Calendar Pandemic journal 2021
Week 20 Smithsonian Engagement Calendar Pandemic journal 2022
My sketch for this week is of the mural Pool House Blues by Anickan Udofias at the William H Ramsey Aquatic center by the Eastern Market at DC. I have learned a lot about various artists and history, science, archeology etc. through the photographs in the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar and also by the art I saw in and around various places I visited during those days. The poster shown in the calendar photograph is for Richard Norman’s 1922 movie. The movie featured “Bill Pickett(1870-1932), a famous cowboy and a rodeo performer of African and Native American descent. Pickett created the technique of bulldogging( also known as steer wrestling) featured in the film. The film itself is presumed lost, as only fragments have been found”.
Sketch of the mural ‘Pool House Blues by Anickan Udofias’
Sketch by Meera Rao
