For a contest called "A Day at the Races" put on by the ever inspiring inspyretash stock [link]

This traditional piece of art covers a small aspect of the races that perhaps few know. During the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, artists would take their models and gear to any place that could provide the inspiration needed to create. Quite frequently these places would be public buildings, courthouses, park-houses and even race tracks. This drawing tells the tale of a poor but inspired artist and penniless but cheerful models who while in the off season when the rains come and the downs turn to mud sneak their way into the press boxes at the race track. There they set up and the artist begins his or her work. During the first world war women were experiencing a certain empowerment, for the first time they felt comfortable with fashions created by women, they could choose to wear their hair short and uncomfortable heavy wired undergarments were regularly discarded in exchange for comfortable breathing cottons, especially in what would be considered the lower class. This was expressed in an art movement that portrayed women as strong and stately however impoverished they may have been. Artists used blankets and patterned sheets to drape across their models to represent beauty and to portray fashion in a dignified and majestic way. So here is a piece to signify and embody the feel of this time and an implication toward fashion being in the eye of the beholder, also signifying the beauty of the female body being fashion itself. This piece is done all in ink and markers.