A Day with Dana

As my Dad might have said, we have a new artsy-tour guide named Dana. We have been with her once before and we were really excited yesterday for another visit to some unexpected place. My mom directed her to Museo Reina Sofia. We got lost a little, but with the help of the metro, we got there. Dana was instructed to give us a little art lesson, so we headed over to a wide metal bench and opened never-used-before sketchbooks. Dana taught us about shading, trees, value scales, tints and shades, and reviewed color wheels, primary colors, secondary colors, and  tertiary colors. We set out toward the Chagall exhibit. I sketched anything interesting in my sketchbook, but my sketching skills need work, so old men looked like angry owls. Bryce kept on freaking out about nudes.
"Psst, Laurel, look over there. It's a naked person!"
"Ewww..... He's naked!"
"Look, two naked people in the same room! Gross!"
"They actually think this painting is good? There's naked people in it!"

The only thing Bryce was inspired by was a pigeon.

So, when we finished touring and sketching, we headed out to a cervezeria to get a snack. After a chilled potato tortilla sandwich, we took the metro from Atocha station to the Tribunal station, which is a block away from our house. Did I mention that it started pouring as soon as we set off from the cervezeria? We accidentally tried the wrong door in our haste to get inside. When we found the right door, I shrugged off my soaking jacket and sat on a swivel stool near the counter. We were supposed to draw something that inspired us. I was inspired by one painting about a wall that no one could see over. I drew a bird's eye view of a wall. On the other side was nothing. I drew two men carrying a ladder to the wall. Bryce, unsurprisingly, drew cars. You know the pigeon he was inspired by? He drew it on the roof of a car. Typical. Not really creative, sadly. Just something already invented and used in everyday life. We had a great day with Dana, but sadly, that was our last.

Stay tuned for another Laurel post