I haven’t been doing much urban sketching or dream drawing lately, while I try to complete a couple of commissioned dog portraits (that are taking forever) and attend figure/portrait drawing sessions and do other life stuff. But here’s a quickie from sketch night at the laundromat, a favorite place to sketch. I’m glad I have my own washer and dryer so I don’t have to go there to do laundry, but I do enjoy the perspective challenges and patterns of rows of rectangles, circles and black and white shapes, as well as the little still life of soap and baskets.
Jana Bouc, Artist 
10 replies on “Sketching at the Laundromat”
I love it, Jana. I have seen this view so many times through my life when I didn’t have a washer and dryer.
And the bright red oxi cleaner is a great touch.
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Thanks Annie! Me too, and I mostly have pleasant memories of those times so sketching in the laundromat kind of brings that back.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM Jana Bouc, Artist wrote:
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🙂 I like it! It’s so realistic. I can almost smell the detergent and feel the humidity of washers and dryers in the air.
Have a very HAPPY weekend! 🙂
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Aww, you’re so sweet! I’m so glad you can sense the air there too. I love that warm clean smell!
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Love the simplicity. Still gets your point across though. I like how everyday and normal this scene is. Sometimes people focus on supposedly grand things, but this scene holds a lot of wait as well.
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Thanks Royman32. It’s true for me, the simplest things interest me and make me happty so much more than grand ones.
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Thanks for the quiet reminder to look at “things” in terms of shapes. The bold, deep, rich color of the red cap in your drawing is wonderful!
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Thanks for noticing that little touch of red in my laundry table “still life!”
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We love your sketches of our laundrymat!
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Thank you Rita! How exciting for me that you found my sketch. I hope I did it justice. It’s such a pleasant place to spend the evening.
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