Sketching at the Ballgame

I got a few of sketches done during the Regionals. They are in my medium sketchbook with a regular Pilot ball point pen. Rice and Rider were playing in the first one ... Rice won. Texas played Rice for the championship and won so the second is Rice players after the game while we were waiting for the folks to leave the stadium. Couldn't sketch the Texas team, too exciting! Texas plays TCU for the Super Regionals here this weekend, best 2 of 3 and if the Horns win it is on to Omaha, to the College World Series. Wow!

Almost impossible for me to get the figures to look like different folks so quickly .. mainly you get gesture only. Fun and frustrating at the same time. Ha.

Number 1, friend (sort of friends?) and challenge - moving subjects, Number 2, round -- the top of the hat, Number 3, non feathered animal, the gal watching the game. Number 4, cube, there is sort of a cube, too, in the shape of the dugout.




And of course a couple of photos from the game.
A big crowd even in the heat. The buses were over flowing! We wondered who would fall off trying to catch a home run.

And Russell Moldenhauer getting fed a little of Augie's philosophy. Augie seems to always emphasize to just do the best you can, one pitch at a time, one inning at a time. He says they all do better when they each work toward doing their best. Maybe that was just before Russell hit his big home run in that game. He has been a clutch hitter in the tournaments.

That philosophy works for artists, too, don't you think?