Six hours to kill

by Shari Blaukopf in Toronto, Canada

This past weekend, on my way to Chicago, I got stuck in Toronto because of a cancelled flight. The earliest flight I could get on was in six hours. Luckily I was at the Toronto Island airport so downtown was only a short hop away. My Chicago plan was to be at The Art Institute, but since that didn’t work out I ended up at the Art Gallery of Ontario, drawing the view from there (and seeing some of the collection too).

The six hour delay turned into eight so I had lots of time to draw. I was travelling very light —carrying only a pencil, some pens, a water brush and some sketchbooks so I made the most of my time by drawing both in the city of Toronto and then at the airport. I finished the drawing of the Victorian house across from the museum using a Sharpie pen and a Pentel brush pen.

Thinking it might be time to finally take off, I did a little thumbnail of the skyline from the island airport, using a Pilot fine liner (water-soluble) and my Koi water brush.

When the plane was further delayed, instead of eating the free Porter snacks, I expanded my thumbnail into a more complete drawing.

And then did one final thumbnail of the CN tower from the plane just before takeoff. Glad I did all this drawing in Toronto because I didn’t have much time to draw in Chicago, although I did finally make it to The Art Institute.