Well I haven’t had a chance to get to either of the museums since the last exhibit closed so instead I went and sketched a music performance at the Starbucks on the corner of Terry and Republic. I’d first met[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was just for forty five minutes. I was spending most of the afternoon doing grunt work for the setup for a memorial service at Meeting and I had an hour off when the memorial actually started. I decided to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I had a good time at the Fremont Fair today people watching, talking to friends listening to music and of course the Solstice parade. This, as always, was a pleasure with it’s performers, musicians and nude bicyclists. I actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s sketch is from the Seattle Peace conference at Gasworks Park featuring Jessica Lynne and several others which occurred on June 30th. I really liked the way the Performers were framed by either the downtown skyline or Queen Anne[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I had a fun weekend for the most part. Saturday was spent doing a little bit of catchup then checking a friends house while he was out of town and walking his dog. After that I spent the rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I did the free first Thursday at Seattle Art Museum. yesterday. Because I have a membership I generally avoid it because the usually large crowds make it difficult me to get into my sketching zone. But I had gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lake City’s “Pioneers’ Day” street fair was last Saturday. I confess it is not my favorite street fair of the season but it’s in my neighborhood and I like the community participation. Anyway one of the more popular venues at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well here we have the very last sketch in my current sketchbook. I went through this in just six months (a time period that used to be my average time but I’ve been going through them a lot slower lately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I just started breaking in my new sketchbook. Sometimes I’ll block for over a week to start one, obsessing over the perfect first picture. It’s like being a narcissist with a mirror. So there’s nothing like a little bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75) from the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
