fifty fire hydrants and other metal pipes that come out of the ground

I took part in NaNoDrawMo this month (draw fifty drawings in the month of November) and so I filled a whole Cachet watercolour sketchbook with drawings along one theme: fire hydrants and other metal pipes that come out of the ground. In fact that’s a nice concise title. Most of them were drawn in Davis (with a few from elsewhere) – now I’m such a hydrant obsessive that I spot small variations in hydrants from miles away. It’s amazing how many there are.

Actually, if you’re interested here are the lot, all fifty in one picture:

The last sketch of all was the UC Davis water tower, biggest and most visible of all the metal pipes sticking out of the ground here. And now I will draw no more of these things for a good long while…

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by Pete Scully