Sunday, March 11, 2012

TSA Area

If you're stuck in an airport for a while, and you have a sketchbook with you, a great place to sit is near the security screening area.

People get into all sorts of interesting poses as they're putting themselves back together.

Traveler's Tip: In Chicago O'Hare airport, you can sit at the entrance to the E/F gates of Terminal 2. There's a Starbucks perfectly positioned with cafe tables that have a good view in that direction.
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11 comments:

  1. Chris GMarch 11, 2012 at 2:12 PM

    Great suggestion! What where you using for the washes there?

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  2. JohnMarch 11, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    Excellent question! Since the crackdown on "illicit fluids" or whatever Homeland Security refers to them as these days, I was wondering what you used, as well. Do you have a "travel set" for airports and such?

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  3. BarbaraMarch 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM

    It could be the Starbucks dark roast.

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  4. James GurneyMarch 11, 2012 at 5:44 PM

    I have used dark coffee for a sketch wash, but this time I used a water brush and a watercolor pencil.

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  5. Michael GMarch 11, 2012 at 9:02 PM

    I've often thought about doing this, but my inner 'fraidy cat worries that the TSA would see this as some kind of 'intelligence gathering activity'...

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  6. James GurneyMarch 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM

    Michael, You might be right -- there may be some rule on the books about not photographing or drawing around the checkpoint -- I don't know. (Though the thought of terrorists using sketchbooks is pretty hilarious.) In my case I was sitting a ways off in a cafe, so none of the officials or passengers even looked over at me.

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  7. UnknownMarch 11, 2012 at 9:41 PM

    Great sketches!

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  8. AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM

    great idea!! I will try this next time. :-)



    Mimi Torchia Boothby Watercolors

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  9. LyricMarch 13, 2012 at 7:47 AM

    airports are definitely one of my favorite places for undercover sketching.

    Interesting - it would be the guy with a fez and a beard that gets patted down. Wonder if he gets that every time.

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  10. Torbjörn KällströmMarch 15, 2012 at 10:16 AM

    Nice idea. I allways have trouble finding somehere good to sit when I think of sketching people in public... Either people are too far away or move away too fast.

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  11. Torbjörn KällströmMarch 15, 2012 at 10:16 AM

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