Celebrate Clumsy

 Before things green up is the best time to do trail work. We needed to scope out trail conditions of part of our Landon Trail south of Overbrook. I was checking out a culvert and fell, hyperextending my wrist. Got the job done but need to baby my wrist for a few days. This drainage is not a real creek. It's just run-off from a pasture, so it will be dry most of the year. Cattle can use it to cross between pastures. The railroad built this in 1930 and it's still rock solid. 

When I sketch, I don't use pencil first. "Lead Free". It's faster but riskier. I concentrated drawing the hand so much that by the time I was drawing the wrist, I was getting sloppy and not checking my proportions often enough. Thus the long skinny arm. I still like lead free. Every time I look at this it reinforces the idea that I need to stay aware of proportions the whole time I'm sketching. This was drawn with my long Lamy fountain pen. I sure like that pen!

Anyway, it was still fun to sketch it. When the quick-med place put on the brace I immediately knew I had to sketch it. I'm right handed so the sketching subject could just sit there as I sketched. I liked the straps and grommets, too. It gives me a gothic bowler rock singer look.