Here's a quick winter break trip I took downtown for this #wednesdaywalk by
As usual we had to look at the cloudgate sculpture aka the bean.
This time it was rather gloomy on a holiday weekday so not too many people were downtown and we could see the bean better than usual. Normally this place would be surrounded by hundreds of people taking selfies in front of it.
Nearby there is an ice skating ring and my panorama settings couldn't handle the speed of some of the skaters.
So I snapped a one off shot to try and get better action from the skaters. The city's gloom was too much and the speed made them blurry.
We took a quick peak inside the Art Institute. Here is a little gallery of globes where various objects are encased in something like acrylic based on various themes. This one reminds me of spring.
Here's an interesting marble sculpture. These kinds of sculptures always make me want to break out the charcoal to sketch the lights and darks of the form.
Here's an odd painting. I wish I would have taken note of the artist but we were in a rush. Looks like a jaw bone and some kind of modern looking egg chair lol.
Now its time to head back home to suburbia on the train. Its only like 3pm but its already really dark outside and the lamps are lit.
Now back home from the train station we have to take this snowy path. Fortunately when it snows around here the temperature gets a slight bit warmer for a while. I'm sure it will be getting pretty cold in the next few days though and this will be packed ice.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)