Sunday, December 12, 2010

Our second attempt: Hyde Park

After the previous day's triumph, we returned to our spot in the fig avenue in Hyde Park.

Uma

I allowed myself to use the word "beautiful" because Uma is a child.

Rebecca Shipley

Later I realised I was trying to describe a sea-shell. Later still a friend (Paul) was reading over our descriptions, and he said the "deep sockets" made this woman sound ghoulish. That wasn't my intention. She was lovely looking, but what sort of a description is "lovely looking"?

Linda

Charise and Tom

Charise and Tom were possibly on their first date.

Celia

Celia needed extra time to finish her sketch of me, so she got a few more lines than some of our other customers. There is often more to say about the faces of older people. She insisted on reading aloud my description of her: "A writer must hear her work!" Thankfully, this one was a description that I was happy with.

Celia's drawing of Lucy describing her

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Our first busk: Hyde Park

Stella and I had gotten our busking licences a few days previously, and with excitement and trepidation, we hauled our milk-crates etc. to Hyde Park and set up on a park bench. Stella broke the ice while I sat there and doodled. Then suddenly we had an unbroken supply of customers (at times, a queue of two!), and a couple of hours later, we had used up all the 'letterhead' I had drawn up. It was a success! We had made about $17 each (this is a business proposition, after all).

Tony

Our first brave customer. Also includes a few lines of 'atmos', typed while Stella was trying to talk someone into sitting for me.

Jess

Scott

Nia

I was trying to avoid saying, "He's handsome."

Michael

Kirk

Lucy describing David in Hyde Park, Sydney



David

While David sat on the bench, his friend Johannes stood a bit back and laughed at him. Then it was Johannes's turn.

Johannes

Johannes's face has stayed in my mind. I think I might use parts of it for Friedrich Scheuermann, one of the characters in the novel I am writing at the moment.

Deborah

Ben

Stella McDonald

I've known this face since it didn't have any eyebrows. Or head hair. It's a pleasure to describe a face that I know so well.

Stella and Lucy awaiting customers in Hyde Park, Sydney

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