Drakko at Le May

Yesterday we met at the Le May Collection at Marymount.

This isn't the shiny, flashy museum near the Tacoma Dome. This is the funky family collection sprawling across several buildings. We've been a few times before and each time the displays change a little.

After a wander, I settled in to sketch a 2006 Custom Dragster "Drakko". It's info card said it was made for show, not go. It was designed to shoot flame, blow smoke, and it's eyes lit up red! I sketched from both the front and rear views.

 

  

 We were rather a small group.

 

 

LeMay Family Museum outing March 11

 LeMay Family Museum

325 152nd St E, Tacoma, WA 98445

(This is not the the LeMay America's Car Museum near the Tacoma Dome.)

Sketch-Outing, from 10 AM-12:30.  Meet outside the front entrance at 10 AM. We will sketch until 12:30, then share our sketches & join in a group photo.  Meet again outside the door for throwdown.  In addition to so many unique and unusual vehicles inside, there are a few outside as well as interesting buildings. 
 
There is a group rate of $10 each for a minimum of 10 people.  If  we don't have 10, then it would be the regular admission of $15; AAA, Seniors (65+) $12.

Red Shoe

A large group of Urban Sketchers-Tacoma met on a very rainy day at the LeMay Family Collection at Marymount. 

Since I arrived early, I sketched under the cover of a walkway.  This is a view of the building which housed the boiler for the complex.  Marymount was operated by the Sisters of St. Dominic from the early 1920′s to 1976 as a military academy for young boys.  Talk about a double dose of discipline!  I asked the staff how nuns ran a military school.  They did the regular teaching.  Soldiers from nearby Fort Lewis provided the military content.  More about that here  



Once we were all gathered, I explored the several rooms of the collection.  It was difficult to pick a subject.  Until I saw the Red Stiletto car!  It was the weirdest vehicle there so that's what I had to sketch.  It is a custom built art car made in 1990 by David Crow of Snohomish.  It is powered by a Honda motorcycle engine.  There are two seats, with a passenger seat above the driver in the upper heel.


Figure is a standee of Marilyn Monroe.  The album covers are a bit of
photo collage. 

As usual, we gathered to share sketches and have a group photo.  It was a good sized group today with several new sketchers.  Welcome, all!





Lots more photos here.