Daily drawings, from Minneapolis to the North Bay

All of these are in ink pen in my 5×7″ sketchbook. Most are from life, some are from photos I took, and one is from a photo by someone else. I was walking through the lovely Warehouse District of Minneapolis after the march on January 23, wondering how I was going to hail a ride given how much the -20 F weather had drained my phone battery, but too high from the company of marchers to really fret. I looked up and saw a beautiful, pink, spiral fire escape, and (since I wasn’t going to stand there and draw) dug out my phone to snap it for later, but remembered that my phone wasn’t up for a text, much less a photo. I found a spot in the warm, my phone recovered, I got my ride, and once back in my friend’s home I looked up the fire escape. It was so noticeable that I was not surprised to find several photos. Gratitude to Kelly Schnell, who posted an excellent one in her Flickr account.