I mentioned yesterday that I am driving to Lake Geneva every day for a colored pencil workshop. While I'm having fun, getting at least one piece completed, I hate being inside on these beautiful end-of-summer days. The Best Western where this workshop is being held faces the lake, which today was blue and sparkling. Right next door there is a park with a couple pieces of statuary. The one pictured above is of three graceful young women, with a fountain underneath them. Maybe I could sketch them...
This Andy Gump. I remember that he was vandalized a couple times when I was in high school in the 1960s, but today he stood proud and tall with a couple of admirers. Andy is a cartoon character created around 1917 by Chicago Tribune artist Sid Smith, who lived in the resort town. Smith died in 1935, and the strip continued until 1959, but the statue, I hope will last for years to come.
Across the street on Wrigley Drive (named for the same wealthy folks who bring you chewing gum), a businessman has brought a dozen or so magnificent circus wagons to town from Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Circus World is a huge living museum, and has something like two thirds of all the historic circus wagons in the world. I went there as a child, but since then have only seen the wagons on the Circus Train that came through Janesville a few times on the way to Milwaukee's Circus Parade. I've never seen them so close up before, and it is a treat. I have a series of circus wagon pictures but Blogger is being slow tonight, so they will have to wait for another time.
2 comments:
The circus wagon is very cool. I hope you are able to put up the rest of them, I would like to see them.
We were just in the area two weekends ago, for a wedding at Lakelawn Resort. It was beautiful!
Enjoy the class you're taking!
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