Went to the pool today, but had Uncle Bob along to watch the kids, so I just sat on the deck and sketched. At first I was sketching people a fair distance off, but then this striking woman, a bit older than me but in way better shape, parked her chaise an arm's length in front of me, totally oblivious to what I was doing. She lost herself in a book and I drew her as she sat motionless for an impressive length of time.

These are all in 0.5mm 2B mechanical pencil on a 5x8 sketchbook.

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those are super sketches..She came out quite excellent!

Wow great Life Draws Ernest !!!!!
Wonder what page she got to before she noticed .. or did she ? Did you show her the drawing ?

And did you manage to get her number?

I did that with my husband .. drew his picture while he was sleeping in the car ( waiting for my daughter to get out of the movies )

you did a great job Ernest .

The wife would have got suspicious at that point, I believe. She has come to understand my staring at other women -- as long as I'm drawing them

I always stare at other women. keeps my wife on her toes.

Steve,, all that Drooling !!.. you're getting the forum so messy..

Very good sketches! Didn't they run away when they noticed you? I tried to do same thing on bus. Suddenly everybody started stare out to window. So I could draw only backs.

Very good Ernest. Nice to get the practice on live people. We can tell the lady was your favorite subject.

As always, fantastic job!! Those are great sketches!

outstanding job

Great work Ernest!

I hope you offered her your SPF15 + ...................just to prevent melanoma of course......

fantastic draws Ernest

Great sketching Ernest!