Sunny Afternoon at the Lavender Farm

Today some of the Anacortes Sketchers came to Whidbey.  Several Whidbey Island Sketchers joined in the fun to sketch at the gorgeous Lavender Wind Farm outside Coupeville. 

They were distilling harvested lavender into lavender oil in the still shown on left below.  A glorious, sunny day for sketching with a wonderful lavender scent filling the air.

The fragrance of lavender was in the air

I've been wanting to sketch here for ever. Finally enjoyed the day with the lovely Anacortes  sketchers.

Lavendar Wind Farm

Yep! That's Mike B. sketching away in front of the lovely rows of lavendar. I wish I could convey the fragrance and the slight breeze that was present that day. I was really entranced with that wheelbarrow thing, but then there were all those other things around. I just kept on painting and drawing. In this sketch I threw in all the color first and then did the drawing. I love doing it that way. One of the many fun things about WISketchers is that I end up getting to go so many places that I never knew were there! This was a delicious day.