fandomtownies | The Park; Saturday Afternoon [08/04].

It was certainly not a rare thing for Astrid to awaken and feel herself to be in an artistic mood; she even knew that she wanted to paint today, and she had a specific inclination to paint a landscape of the town. She considered the rooftop of the dormitory, but no, that wasn't quite it. So she gathered her things and headed to the park and, after some time walking around to find the best vantage point (made quite easy, really, thanks to her very sturdy and very...tall leather boots), she finally found the perfect spot to best capture the rooftops and all their chimneys spewing out all the steam and smoke from the machines that made their lives so technologically blessed in this day and age. Personally, she hoped she might chance to get an eyeful of an airship or the like in the sky as she worked, but perhaps she might just work one in anyway, if the composition called for it.

Setting up her easel (pity, really, that she hadn't enough money to spring for the very nice collapsible one she saw at the store, shining, gleaming, able to fold itself into the size of a simple spyglass with but the press of a button!), shifting around in the many leather pouches around her hips, then taking a moment to adjust her corset, her fingerless gloves, the decorative hat upon her head, Astrid set to work, making sure her palette contained plenty of gunmetal grays, worn-leather browns, and shiny bronze to capture the real feel of this humble little industrial drop in the ocean.

[[ open park is open for all your parkly needs! I personally might be a tad slow due to work, though! I just desperately needed to use this icon. ]]