tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26318811884049835852024-03-06T19:34:00.441-08:00Whidbey Island SketchersSue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.comBlogger1902125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-10561529376398530292019-09-22T14:20:00.000-07:002019-09-22T14:28:51.495-07:00Django at The Commons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friday turned out to be a most beautiful sunny late September sketching day at The Commons. We had a handful of musicians gathering and playing Django music. They didn't stay very long ... but I did get a chance to sketch Ron Thordarson and Ken Ritland. They were delightful musicians and very fun to sketch.<br />
<br />Barbara Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498039436533668591noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-91852125872444194402019-09-05T21:36:00.000-07:002019-09-05T21:36:43.909-07:00Kang's Money Plants Each time we visit the Kang's beautiful lavender fields, I am overwhelmed by the big view. I am not a landscape painter. Can't see the forest for the trees. I always find myself drawn to the circular flower bed with the birch tree surrounded by money plants and irises. This year the money plant's seed pods had turned the most gorgeous range of colors on the day of our visit. <br />
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<br />Sue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-83781365879604378572019-09-05T21:25:00.000-07:002019-09-05T21:25:51.232-07:00In the GardenSome flowers in my garden this summer . . . <br />
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<br />Sue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-78673431607157155752019-08-17T18:33:00.002-07:002019-08-17T18:33:59.231-07:00Above Holmes HarborThank you, Laurie, for allowing us to play in your yard, and house! And thanks, Rindy, for taking care of the HH particulars. Incredible house, art and setting. This beautiful place has an abundance of subjects. I started with the view:<br />
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My vegetable garden is always a happy place because it's chock full
of self-seeded flowers. Poppies, calendula and borage in this sketch.
But also nigella (love-in-a-mist), evening primrose, johnny jump ups and
rose mallow in other parts of the garden. It's a riot of happy colors.
I meticulously weed, dead head, water and tend the volunteers, almost
daily, while much of the rest of the yard goes to ruin. Hmmm. . . .<br />
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one. Sue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-88499773362144432072019-03-24T14:01:00.001-07:002019-03-24T14:01:05.216-07:00Blue School, Westport, Hat Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Friday and Sunday sketching! Today while driving around enjoying our beautiful but chilly views, I came upon a view of Hat Island and decided it was worthy of stopping for a bit. I was driving on Witter Rd and don't know the name of the street but it's on the other side of the road to Comforts Winery in case you want to try it.</div>
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Friday our group was at Blue School Arts in Clinton. I meandered into the sunny room where Sara was working and made a sketch of a workspace and some weird thing that looks like a bunch of irons out the window. It must be a Quonset hut??</div>
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Last week in Westport, I tried sketching boats from the car. I decided it's not my forte! Too many masts and hard to tell where they all come from and one of my boats looks like its falling into the water. I like land!</div>
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Pat Brookeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02957371137413342795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-10694738438421188192019-03-24T13:48:00.001-07:002019-03-24T13:48:52.577-07:00Orcas Island Pottery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yikes, I started this and realized I was on the sketchers blog instead of my own. What the heck, maybe you'll like it anyway. Pat<br />
A few of my favorite paintings in watercolor are gracing the walls of our Co-op. I don't always paint larger than a quarter sheet, but the Orcas Island pottery displays were worth the challenge.<br />
I loved the brown and blue mugs, they looked like they would be a pleasure to hold in your hand. The giant plates on the side of the log building also attracted me. The sun was shining making very defined shadows and the blue and transparent pinky pearl glaze on one of the plates made me want to paint.<br />
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Both of these paintings are professionally framed with conservation clear glass. I took these photos while they were hanging on the wall at Whidbey Art Gallery so there is a slight glare because of so many lights.<br />
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Pitcher and Pear is a large 16x20 or 1/4 sheet with conservation clear glass. All three of these paintings are available through me walarts@gmail.com or at Whidbey Art Gallery in Langley, WA. www.whidbeyartists.com.<br />
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Well, I haven't posted in quite a while! Also haven't been sketching much. Yesterday, the sun came out and shone gloriously on us ... and almost as soon as we were done, the clouds came in with cold breezes and light sprinkles. Big crowd 'o Sketchers! A good number of us took advantage of the sun and sat out front ... we had lots of sketches of this very scene and it was fun to see each Sketcher's take on it. What a cool art school!! Thank you Blue School Arts for letting us invade!Barbara Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498039436533668591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-43268507255334204342019-02-02T22:07:00.001-08:002019-02-02T22:17:42.385-08:00The TaproomThe Taproom was sure hopping Friday afternoon and evening. The sketchers filled the place! Almost. There were seats available for "normal" people. I probably should have sketched something more Taproom-ish but am feeling the need to practice people and the sketchers are great models.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">I knew before I went to sketch at the museum that the Maiden of Deception Pass would probably be my subject. She's a carved figure in the style of a totem painted in beautiful turquoise, green, pale pinks, white and black. The myth captured me when I had read it a few years back. Probably because it’s a kind-of mermaid story and I’ve always been attracted to mermaids. They live in the sea and who wouldn’t want to breath under water and see the wonders? She accidentally slips into the water and a merman takes her hand. She eventually marries him to provide food for her people. I included a link to the story at the end if you’re interested in reading it.</span></div>
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My second sketch I bit off too much size wise. It became unwieldy and was taking too long to dry. This was done in an A4 moleskin wc book. Had a lot of fun playing with the paint, making marks and blobs.<br />
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Well, I'm not the long-winded type but this past Friday, Saturday was special. There is something about dropping time on a small Island with a bunch of friends that are meandering, sharing and enjoying the slower pace that happens when you leave to your got to's at home.<br />
Our got to's were to meet at an early enough hour that we could meander up Whidbey to Anacortes to catch a ferry to Lopez. We had two cars almost full and were meeting a couple of walk-ons sketchers at the ferry. It was raining!!! Didn't matter!! Paula said it would stop by the time we got to Lopez! She was right!!<br />
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We did the usual stuff checking in to the hotel, wandering around town, getting food from the Taco truck, Bakery, and coffee shop; then off to our appointment which was about 5 miles out of town.<br />
Destination, a BIG yellow container full of art papers, stationary, calendars, cards, trinkets, and INSPIRATION!<br />
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We had to take turns poking around to find all the hidden treasures so, the rest of us hung out in the barn. A barn full of treasures of a different sort; a large pachyderm, a minstrel, found lamps; saved scissors, saws, a collection of jam jars, lots more plus a wood stove to keep us cozy. We opened the Happy hour supplies, sketchbooks and got to work. Meanwhile, Terry, Caps husband, serenaded us with his original songs and guitar. Time stopped!<br />
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Pat Brookeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02957371137413342795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-42714916095254606292018-09-14T18:31:00.001-07:002018-09-14T18:31:30.226-07:00The Tower on the Guest House at the Clay Estate, Greenbank<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Judi Nyergeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704132769718193789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-49961023534722271412018-09-07T22:33:00.000-07:002018-09-08T11:12:14.783-07:00Grapes for the Birds<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Never Have I Ever had a bad day with the Whidbey Island Sketchers. Today was just absolutely wonderful. The weather was perfect under another popcorn sky, almost everyone turned out, we were at the Whidbey Winery so there were grapes bursting and ready to be picked, “fake birds of terror” (to another bird) were singing (electronically), the “groaning board” was heaped with good food and WINE, and we were sketching up a storm. It simply doesn’t get better than this. And we marveled yet again at how this large a group consistently gets along and supports each other so well!</span><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">When we asked what kind of grapes the ones on the fence were, the ones I was sketching, our hostess informed us they were just decorative grapes, not for wine, and they were there stricly as "sacrificial fruit", for the benefit of the birds - to keep them distracted from eating the grapes on the "money vines"! </span></span></span></span><br />
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Judi Nyergeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704132769718193789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-12529170251795264722018-09-07T12:42:00.002-07:002018-09-07T12:56:31.526-07:00RED HAT BUBBLE BEARS AND A BUDDHA<div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="background-color: white;">At the beautiful log home in the deep woods of our hostess, artist and collector of eccentrics, Janet Ross, a kitchen window full of delightful etceteras - including a row of brightly colored bottles, empty now of their soap bubble solutions, but still possessed of jaunty red hats. And a Buddha with a red glass ball. And an orange glass pumpkin. And a flying red heart. JOY on a windowsill.</span></div>
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Judi Nyergeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704132769718193789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-43475745461575027112018-07-30T12:54:00.001-07:002018-07-30T12:54:51.130-07:00Sunday sketching & Cloudstone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was a warm day at Cloudstone, but it was so relaxing to wander through the trees and visit the many earthworks and sculptures set in the Trees. My sketch was done in the shade of a bulldozer.<br />
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This Sunday was another one of those special days where you want to "just be out there enjoying the day". I started to drive somewhere and got around the corner from my home and decided heck, the Dahlia house looked like a good subject. Crazy perspective on the back of the bench but ....eh!<br />
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Pat Brookeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02957371137413342795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-51455587461620562802018-07-16T17:41:00.000-07:002019-05-07T12:12:48.140-07:00Sue and Case<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I did this one from a photo after I got back home. This is our warm-hearted Sue walking with one of the little ladies that she checks in on regularly. Her visits clearly mean so much to so many. Thank you Sue for being who you are.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00080894362394549970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-55479475391476314252018-07-16T17:35:00.002-07:002018-07-16T17:36:28.235-07:00Sketching Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Thanks to Missy for a shared blop of Transparent Pyrol Orange and to Sandra for a shared blop of Lapis Lazuli. We also found some new pencils with 3 colors in the lead, but they weren't water soluble. </div>
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But the cold day made my Anacortes madrona grove story more haphazard than Sue's - fresh wet colors in my paint box and no testing before it touched the page. I was balancing all my gear and dancing around on a hill to stay warm, then oops, touched the wrong blue and I had "midnight in the grove."</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00080894362394549970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-66788645031227410222018-07-16T05:30:00.001-07:002018-07-16T05:30:29.642-07:00Madronas on a Cloudy DayA few of us sketched with the Anacortes Sketchers at the Madrona Grove in Anacortes last Monday. It was an overcast day, chilly, breezy, no shadows, no sunny back lighting. <br />
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Sue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-63565222557812921012018-07-16T05:12:00.000-07:002018-07-16T05:12:29.018-07:00Poetry (and Hula Hoops) in MotionShe was hula hoop dancing for tips on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Port Townsend, right next to the tarot card reader in the gypsy wagon. Drawing her was impossible, but what the hell. Her name is Alex Eisenberg. <br />
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Sue Van Ettenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990210584729005124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-2388823631959427942018-07-14T11:37:00.000-07:002018-07-14T11:37:00.290-07:00ASIATIC LILIES AND LAVENDER AT FINE GELFAND'S HOUSE<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It may have been Friday the 13th, but we, the Whidbey Island Sketchers, were having very GOOD luck, because we got to visit Fine and Jerry Gelfand's home in Greenbank. Set on high bank with a majestic overlook of Puget Sound in the Salish Sea, textile artist Fine has crafted a fantasy, secret sunken garden reached only by a meandering brick path down, down through lush vegetation and colorful flowers. At the bottom it all surrounds a glade, in the center of which stands an ancient Island boulder of epic proportions. Fine discovered on the hill, dug down to its base, then had it pushed with dozers down to its present location. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n artist/gardener's visionary eye and a tremendous amount of hard work the Gelfands </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">carved all of this magic from the tangle of blackberry bushes they inherited with the purchase of the land.</span><br />
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Judi Nyergeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704132769718193789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-82393469910228008012018-07-06T11:30:00.000-07:002018-07-14T11:33:14.741-07:00Pat's Garden, Then and Now<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">in August of 2015, the sketchers met to draw member Pat's new house, with its promise of gardens to come. She invited us to image what her plantings might look like. Now here it is, three years later, just before the fourth of July holiday, and her garden area has gone from sparse but full of potential, to bursting with colorful fulfillment. </span><br />
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Judi Nyergeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704132769718193789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631881188404983585.post-28844012785057359172018-06-15T21:04:00.000-07:002018-06-16T21:05:55.982-07:00An orchid at Grethe and Diane's house<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We sketchers were invited on Friday to Grethe and Diane's magnificent art filled home overlooking the water in Langley. With so many wonderful things to see and appreciate, it was a real challenge to pick just one to sketch, but this orchid sitting in the middle of the table in their kitchen caught my eye immediately. I KNOW its sublime color is totally NOT natural, but I was so taken with it anyway. Such blues, violets and deep purple, all in one flower, all in one petal. Its name is "Black Sapphire" and it is a Phalaenopsis Orchid. </span><br />
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