I am currently back drawing in the Museum of Natural History. You can see me hunched over and scribbling in my sketchbook if you wander around the place. I was the first one in the building on a recent morning. I was in the room with blue whale on the ceiling all by myself. That was pretty surreal. As I was drawing this walrus, a 4-year old boy got into an argument with his mom. She read on the display that walruses use their tusks to break open the ice to make a hole to swim in and to help them pull themselves up onto the ice and out of the water. The kid claimed he already knew that information. He was upset she was assuming he didn’t know all kinds of National Geographic minutia due to his incredible knowledge of nature. The mom looked at me and rolled her eyes. I assumed her kid was doing this all day long. At least I learned a bit about walrus tusks.
