Bottles in a Bar

Plenty of opportunity to practice painting bottles and liquids provided by the row of scotch bottles at the Bookstore Bar in Seattle.  Nice late afternoon painting opportunity before heading to my birthday dinner nearby.

Sketching at the Garden Show

While in Seattle yesterday, I spent the afternoon at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show.

It's a massive annual show at the convention center.  It proved to be a great place for sketching while taking in all the sweet fragrances and colors of the display gardens as well as the bustling activity around all the vendors and plant market. 

I'm afraid I came down with a major case of Spring Fever that may be contagious!

Sketching Gauguin

Visited the Gauguin exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum yesterday.  Enjoyed trying to sketch bits and pieces.  Not easy since they only let you sketch with a dull golf pencil.  Standing up.  Amongst the other exhibit-goers.  But still fun to capture part of the experience in sketches.  Added watercolor later.

Fittingly, on Leap Day, that's the end of this sketchbook. 

Dia de Muertos Festival

Had a great time sketching at the Dia de Muertos Festival on Saturday in Seattle.  Wish I could have stayed longer!  So much to sketch.  Happy Halloween today and Day of the Dead on wednesday.

Fabulous altar at the festival.

This dapper chap was taking a break from his street musician duties.

Sketchbook Journaling in Seattle

Took in the fabulous Picasso exhibit at Seattle Art Museum this week & enjoyed a bit of sketchbook journaling in the process. 

Analytique

Six of us sketchers ventured to downtown Seattle early in the a.m. last Saturday for a class called 'Analytique.' It was canceled at the last minute so we made lemonade with our lemons. Breakfast and sketching at Pike's Place, then headed up to Capital Hill to Dick Blick for some supply shopping. Our group is a bit like herding cats! Too many distractions in busy downtown. All in all, it was a fun day and the sketchers are great to adventure with.

an·a·ly·tique–noun Architecture.

an elevation drawing of a façade, surrounded by a decorative arrangement composed of drawings of the important details and sometimes a plan or section of the façade.

Wendy at Breakfast. She got to work immediately drawing the pillars on the lower level of the market.

As we were leaving the market I spotted a guy entirely covered with silver. He was a funky robot. I call him SilverMan.