It had been a few years since I had gone to the
Rose Festival's
Grand Floral Parade downtown, so I decided to go and draw a few sketches on the street.
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| Parade Details |
On the left, policemen and one of those Rose Festival creepy old men with a white suit and cape; in the middle, a bicyclist, a cameraman, and a dancer with pompoms (I especially like that sketch); on the right, women at the Media broadcast table.
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| Chinese dog! |
Throughout the parade, I had been working on sketching the street as a background, not sure how I could fill the foreground fast enough since the floats passed by too fast to draw them in their entirety, when, during a lull between floats, suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a goofy-looking Chinese dog appeared. A precursor to the
Chinese New Year Dragon dancers, the dog was full of enthusiastic energy, so funny. I quickly drew it. (
Click on the link above to briefly see the dog in a video someone posted online...)
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| Scenes from the parade |
Here, I caught the elegant white horse from the
Mexico "float" (possibly from the Portland Guadalajara Sister Association). It was just regal. (
Click on the link above to see it in a video someone posted online...)
I enjoyed myself.
