We had a busy morning to study and sketch at the Zoo and Aquarium on a dry May morning. Dozens of school buses delivered students on fieldtrip day. There were plenty of animals, sea life, plants, structures and people to sketch.
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| The throwdown |
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| Urban Sketchers visit the Zoo |
We met at the Wayzgoose printers' fair yesterday. The weather was perfect for the partially out door event.
This was probably the smallest group of sketchers to attend a USk Tacoma outing. Jen and I plus Seth, a visitor from USk Nashville.
We all sketched the steam roller printing huge sheets of carved linoleum.
After my first sketch I went inside the Tacoma Main Library to peruse the vendors. I was pleased to see a friend is keeping Chandler O'Leary's art available. Disturbingly, that website has not been altered and is written in the present tense. Chandler died too young several years ago of a sudden illness.
I always like dragons so the library's resident was my next sketch. I went in straight with ink and mixed the watercolors on the paper.
Our little throw down and group photo.
We met at the McMenamins Elks Temple, Tacomoa, which is celebrating 110 years now.
We changed the venue due to unexpected cost of the original and the prediction for significant rain. There was a smaller than usual group so I hope people didn't go to the other location!
I've sketched here many times before but found a couple views I've not drawn.
I used only ink for this...pen line and a waterbrush with diluted ink wash. I got the stamp from the hotel desk and also collaged a photo of the "6" that was painted on the elevator as well as a graphic of one of the logos.
I sat with Beverly in the restaurant to have some lunch. I sketched the view from our table.
We had a wonderful morning to sketch on a warm, spring day. The Met Market was busy with shoppers and sketchers, both indoors and outdoors.
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| The throwdown |
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| Urban Sketchers visit Met Market |
We met at Fort Nisqually for the first time in a few years. It seemed everyone had fun and found something interesting to sketch. It was perfect weather which felt very much like spring…sunny at almost 60 degrees.
I'd sketched this tree in the past but did so again as it was in bloom. The blossoms didn't quite look like cherry but the bark seemed characteristic. The building is the smokehouse.
Several sketchers from all over met to sketch the blooming cherry trees at Renton City Hall. One from Gig Harbor, one from Redmond, and others in between. The small grove of Yoshino cherry trees seems to be at peak. The weather was perfect.
There were 6 of us but one had to leave early so not in our group photo.
