Well another day of Folklife has come and went and was perfectly enjoyable. There really weren’t many memorable acts. I’m beginning to wonder if its a case of me obsessing about the sketching so much I didn’t really care.
Well other than another slightly late start getting out the door. This was another good day at folklife. As far as the sketching was concerned it took me a while to get into my game and perhaps because I was obsessing about that a little too much I didn’t see quite as many acts as I would have liked.
But other than that I think i finally managed to get my pace together and made up for lost time as the day went on.
I got a relitively late start for the first day of this year’s Folklife. Firstly because I was running a little late finishing my week’s quota and also the ongoing construction on Mercer blocked my traditional route under Aurora Ave forcing me to double back a quarter of a mile in order to get to the Seattle Center.
All in all a good start. Friday always has the least going on so there’s no need to hurry to get there and once you do get there there is plenty of time to relax and get your bearings.
As for the sketching it was all a bit of a mixed several of them I thought turned out pretty well while others of them… didn’t. But I think I’m getting myself warmed up and there will be lots more to draw tomorrow.
Today’s Sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit which ended last week. This one is Anne, Countess of Albermarie & Son 1777-9 by George Romney.
Well this was mostly an uneventful day didn’t really get into my zone until half way into the afternoon and then I had to leave early for the first meetup social that the Graphic Artists Guild was hosting.
The meetup was a bust. Despite having a small number of RSVP no one showed up other than me and the other person hosting it. So after hanging out at the meeting place to keep up appearances and wait for people to come.
But the ride home made it worth it. It’s still pretty light out at 8:30 so I had a wonderful view of the sun setting over the Cascades making a nice pink glow over the snow.
My interest in Star Trek tends to wax and wane over the years. One of the few things I continue like about it is Marc Okrand’s Klingon Language. When I first picked up a copy of the first dictionary it was one of my first encounters with a fully developed conlang (not counting Tolkien) and I was hooked.
So when I stumbled over this video featuring Jen Usellis the other day I just had to share.
