![]() ![]() ![]() We’d been there since 6:30 and were ready to leave at halftime …er intermission at 9:00. Rigoletto on the screen surrounded by huge ads ![]() Quite different from being there and choosing what to look at. I’d start to draw a performer’s face and it would switch to a long shot of the stage, then to a close up. The sound was fantastic but it was impossible to sketch the opera because they were filming with multiple cameras and changed the point of view every 20 seconds. That sketch was totally crap so I hope the video doesn’t air anywhere. I turned and found a TV cameraman filming me drawing. I told her I was a sketcher and she did a fist pump and said, “Yay! I won $5.00!” and returned to her friends on the grass.Īs I continued sketching I became aware of someone standing behind me. ![]() Cocoa vendor pouring cups from a tank on his bankĪ woman approached me and asked, “Are you a spy? Or just a sketcher? Or an advertising executive checking on your client’s advertising?” (Nearly every inch of the park is covered in corporate advertising). Sonia got started drawing and saved our seats in the stands while Cathy and I went down to the field and started sketching around there. Opera Chorus singing National Anthem on the field wearing baseball shirts I stood all the way to SF on the BART (the subway), then we transferred to a SF Muni streetcar so tightly packed my bag got closed in the door and my big feet barely had space to stand. Our plan was to sketch this annual tradition where 30,000 people attend the opera for free and picnic on the field or feast on hot dogs, beer and garlic fries in the stands. Giant’s ballpark was for a simulcast of the San Francisco Opera’s production of Rigoletto. Also, appalled by all the corporate advertising, I replaced their signs with generic ones. NOTE: Flags at half mast for slain diplomats. Rigoletto: SF Opera at the Ballpark, 5×8″, drawn in ink then watercolor (and a bit of digital paint) added later. ![]()
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