New Work Monday #13
Today we have an image of sloth:
Snoozing at Karnak
India Ink on Watercolour Paper
When Mr C and I went to Egypt last year, I had my sketchbook in my pocket AT ALL TIMES. You don't want to ask me what I learned on that trip because I wasn't listening to our tour guide. I was busy.
I assume that Mr C wasn't listening much either because everytime I asked him what the tour guide said, he'd be like, "What tour guide?"
And then we'd laugh.
So.
Near the end of that trip (a trip which still gives me the heebie jeebies when I think of it. Egypt is CREEPY) we were in Luxor (which used to be Thebes) and since Luxor is right next to Karnak, we went to check out the temple.
Which was A-Maze-Ing! Those Egyptians had it all figured out in terms of manipulating the constructions of their temples in terms of the sun. In order to even get into the temple, you have to walk up a path lined with and guarded by criosphinx (body of a lion, head of a ram) while the sun pounds into your eyes, blinding you.
Humbling you.
Reminding you of who was boss back then.
Stunning is the word.
Near the end of this brain-popping day, tired and waiting for the other people in the group to make it back to the meeting place, I noticed this dog lying on the sun-baked flagstones. Completely oblivious to everyone walking around her.
She was smiling. She made me smile.
So I drew her.
She still makes me smile.
3 COMMENT(s):
Lovely drawing. I'm glad that you told us that the dreaming dog was smiling in her sleep.
I love your reflection that your Egyptian trip gave you the heebie jeebies and that E was creepy. For that alone, I will treat you to a café crème and beg you to tell me Why?
You definnitely have a way of capturing personalities in your drawings. He's adorable but even more so with the story. I think if I drew that he'd end up looking dead! Elysian fields and the last smile (just after the big truck).
I want to see your sketchbook from the trip.
That looks like my dog! He's been in the US, UK and Oz, but I don't think he's been to Egypt.
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