Vocation with a view

My apartment building is getting new windows. All one week workers put up scaffolding, then one morning these guys were working outside my living room window. Yeah, more models! They could see as I began to draw them so I showed them what I was doing, and later taped the sketch inside the window for them to see. For the painting I added my view of the city in the background.

Sketch and watercolor painting of high-rise window installers over downtown Iowa City, by Jo Myers-Walker

These high-rise window installers are artists of their trade.
The worker shown on the left also creates custom jewelry —
I asked for his card, and he is on Facebook at 1OAK by AztkWarrior.

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