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Sketchcrawl at the Ballard Locks
Eight of us met to draw in Seattle today. We went to the Ballard Locks, a "mini" Panama Canal that connects the Puget Sound with Lake Union and Lake Washington. It was built in the 1910s and the engineers were really smart to build a fish ladder so the salmon in the salt waters of the Puget Sound would have a way to go upstream to lay their eggs and complete their life cycle.
The fish ladder has a viewing area where you can see the salmon swimming against the current. It's really interesting. I think only 2 percent all salmon make it back up the river where their eggs were hatched. The rest are eaten by other creatures —including us fish meat lovers!— at different points of their journey. What a hard life these fish have. For a change of pace I used a 2B pencil on this sketch instead of my usual Micron pens.
See more photos from the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baconveloc ... 414265296/
Our Seattle urban sketchers blog:
http://urbansketchers-seattle.blogspot.com/
Thanks everyone for looking at our stuff! Until the next one!
gabi campanario
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