While I was drawing this, a young man dressed completely in denim and wearing an Olivia Newton-John-style sweatband from the ‘Physical‘ era, stopped right in front of me and began to question me about what medium I favoured for drawing.
‘Pastels,’ I told him, taking out my earbuds* and looking up at him and smiling.
‘Are they soft or oil?’ he said, and surprised that he would know the difference, I told him soft.
Then he came around to my side and looked down at my drawing.
‘Wow!’ he said.
‘I’m only about halfway through,’ I told him. ‘I have a fair bit left to do.’
‘I’d take it just as it is,’ he said. ‘It’s awesome.’
Thanks I told him, as he stood there nodding his head up and down and saying yeh, yeh softly.
‘Okay,’ he said finally. ‘I’ll let you get back to it.’
‘Okay, thanks,’ I said, and I smiled at him.
‘Awesome,’ he said, smiling at me and waving goodbye. ‘Yeh, awesome!’

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