; it just arrived today.) Then some cobalt blue and quinacridone violet, plus a little of the rest.
I met Beth at Third Place Commons to paint. Light from skylights made dra
matic shapes on walls and floors. Models obligingly stayed at their tables, laptops, cellphones for a long time.
Then we moved over near the window and painted the outdoors.
This was our view over the parking lot, looking south (toward the north end of Lake Washington). Here is Beth at work.
... and her finished sketch:
... and mine:
What a good day! Painting makes the clocks stop!
I missed the SketchCrawl last weekend but about a billion sketchers around the world got out and made pictures, including Beth. Isn't this a hope-filled image? Yes it is.
. These are our favorite kinds of places!
Drawing daily if I can, and painting a bit too. I had the watercolors set up on the kitchen counter, but then I found the little blue footprints.... Mac thinks natural-bristle brushes are HIS. He steals.
Here is the original ink drawing; I made it earlier this week, holding the pitcher in my left hand as I drew. I think this was my grandmother's; I am fond of it.
As if the SketchCrawl wasn't enough fun for one day, I spent Saturday evening (and on into the night) in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains at Fall City's Raging River Saloon to hear the wonderful keyboard player Lauralee Smith in a band called Free Rain. Despite their name they can NOT be blamed for the floodwaters just down the road. I did dance, I did drink some beer, I did stay up way past my bedtime. My hotel room was just up the street at the Fall City Inn, which apparently found fame in the tv show "Twin Peaks."
stay: keyboard (piano, synth, accordian) player Lauralee, singer Tom, guitarist Dale, bass player Tim (hey Ballard!), singer P.A., guest singer Debbie from Chrome Molly, drummer Donn and a guest drummer whose name I could not hear above the ambient sounds. That was WITH the earplugs, gracefully provided by Lauralee; there is a reason she can still hear after playing in bands since forever.
Note his shirt: Lauralee's turquoise accordian had its public debut in a classic version of "Twist and Shout." So we did -- although I was briefly expecting her to play "All Along the Watchtower" and I still hope she will.
Fifteen or more sketchers, here warming up at the Solstice cafe, after drawing pictures on the UW campus on a typical raw damp Seattle morning. And here the results of our SketchCrawl are accumulating, including our 5-person "portrait party"! My drawings to come soon.
Drawn from the car, 4:40 ferry Seattle to Bainbridge (it's Winslow! why did they change the name of the ferry run?!). I made the red Corvette look like a Gremlin; ha!
Drawn with a Rotring "Art Pen"; I suppose F stands for Fine. I liked it fine for drawing. Colors added later with NeoColor crayons, followed by a bit of water on a paintbrush: the ink that came in cartridges with the pen is not waterproof, it turns out.
More or less the same view (this time, through a window with a camera) that I drew last June: the cherry tree in its fall color, and the old old farm.
