McMenamins on a rainy day

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sketching at Gig Harbor Metropolitan Market

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.

The throwdown

Urban Sketchers visit Met Market

Spring at the Fort

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. 

City Hall Cherry

 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.

Thursday, April 9: Gig Harbor Metropolitan Market

 Metropolitan Market Gig Harbor

5010 Point Fosdick Drive, Gig Harbor, WA  98335

Meet at 10:00 inside the market at the mezzanine level seating area.  Food and beverage are available for purchase.  Artists can sketch from this view, at the store level, outdoors if weather permits, or nearby shops.

Please be respectful of customers.

5010 Point Fosdick Drive, Gig Harbor

First cherries!

 I sketched my first spring cherry tree blossoms today. But it was at a nursery…Watson's in Puyallup. We met there to enjoy the spring flowers. This nursery is one of my favorites and the staff are so very welcoming to us.

I struggled with this sketch as it was drizzling and then started raining. Even when it wasn't raining the watercolor didn't dry. I had to go inside and work on something else to get it to dry.

My second sketch was a large bunny sculpture. It was priced at $800!

Lots more photos here.

Returning to sketch at the Vintage Aero Museum

We had a great morning to sketch on a blustery March day.  The Gig Harbor Vintage Aero Museum is a wonderful hangar to visit.  We had plenty of vintage aircrafts, automobiles, bicycles, pedal cars, canoes and motorcycles to draw inspiration from.

The throwdown

Urban Sketchers visit the Vintage Aero Museum