Showing posts with label Meeker Mansion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meeker Mansion. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Meeker Mansion Maid's Room
This sketch was done at the Meeker Mansion outing some time ago. I kind of surveyed the rooms and found this great sewing machine in the window of the maid's room. I started with a light graphite sketch to get the right proportions and then finished with brush pen and watercolor.
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Meeker Mansion at turn of the year
Despite the freezing weather with fog, 21 sketchers met at the Meeker
Mansion in Puyallup this morning. It was still beautifully decorated
for Christmas.
I did two sketches with those decorations. The first was a small clock on the wall with a set of china choristers underneath on the table.
While sketching this, I have a good conversation with Roy's grandson. He had a lot of good, insightful, questions about drawing. Roy had just bought him a sketchbook and pens for Christmas and he did a very good job on his sketch!
I dashed off this next sketch in the 10 minutes remaining!. It depicts the top of the banister with holiday bow and an upstairs door with a large wreath.
We shared sketches and then filled the stairs with our group shot.
More photos here.
I did two sketches with those decorations. The first was a small clock on the wall with a set of china choristers underneath on the table.
While sketching this, I have a good conversation with Roy's grandson. He had a lot of good, insightful, questions about drawing. Roy had just bought him a sketchbook and pens for Christmas and he did a very good job on his sketch!
I dashed off this next sketch in the 10 minutes remaining!. It depicts the top of the banister with holiday bow and an upstairs door with a large wreath.
We shared sketches and then filled the stairs with our group shot.
More photos here.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Big Turnout for Meeker Mansion!
Tacoma Urban Sketchers had our best attended sketch outing to date! This was thanks to the article in the "Go" section of The News Tribune yesterday.
The Meeker Mansion in Puyallup, WA was gloriously decorated for Christmas.
The
mansion was built in 1890 and is a splendid Victorian era home. There
was an abundance of sketch opportunities and I just couldn't pick. I
wandered around the entire house for about a half an hour. By then,
there were 2 or 3 or more sketchers in each room. The ones in which I
was most interested were full! Sketchers everywhere:
So I settled down to sketch the period artifacts in a display case in the upper hall.
After I finished this, a spot was open in one of my preferred rooms. These dresses were beautifully made. The clothing and accessories of the period are very interesting to me as I'm working on period clothing and kit as a volunteer interpreter for Fort Nisqually
We gathered to share sketches....
and have a group photo (though there are several missing as they had left before).
More photos of sketchers and the Mansion are here
The Meeker Mansion in Puyallup, WA was gloriously decorated for Christmas.
- Sketcher at the bottom of the stairs.
So I settled down to sketch the period artifacts in a display case in the upper hall.
After I finished this, a spot was open in one of my preferred rooms. These dresses were beautifully made. The clothing and accessories of the period are very interesting to me as I'm working on period clothing and kit as a volunteer interpreter for Fort Nisqually
We gathered to share sketches....
and have a group photo (though there are several missing as they had left before).
More photos of sketchers and the Mansion are here
Saturday, December 20, 2014
January Outing
January's sketch outing will be at the Meeker Mansion in Puyallup on January 3, 2015.
312 Spring Street, Puyallup, WA 98372 Meet at 10 am at the mansion. They will still be fully decorated for Christmas, as they don't take all of that down until Jan. 5th.
Details:
There is an entry fee of $5 per person. Please come prepared with cash as Kate or Frances will be collecting from sketchers to then pay for the whole group.
After we're done with sharing our sketches and the group photo at 12:30, they'll be serving us hot cider and cookies as part of that fee.
There is lots of free parking on the property or nearby.
More info:
Historic Meeker Mansion, on the National Register of Historic homes, is a 17 room Italianate Victorian Mansion. Eliza Jane Meeker, wife of Ezra Meeker (Hops king of the Puyallup Valley and a founder of Puyallup) was tired of more primitive living, and after a trip to Europe decided to have this house built. It took 3 years to build and was finished in 1890.
312 Spring Street, Puyallup, WA 98372 Meet at 10 am at the mansion. They will still be fully decorated for Christmas, as they don't take all of that down until Jan. 5th.
Details:
There is an entry fee of $5 per person. Please come prepared with cash as Kate or Frances will be collecting from sketchers to then pay for the whole group.
After we're done with sharing our sketches and the group photo at 12:30, they'll be serving us hot cider and cookies as part of that fee.
There is lots of free parking on the property or nearby.
More info:
Historic Meeker Mansion, on the National Register of Historic homes, is a 17 room Italianate Victorian Mansion. Eliza Jane Meeker, wife of Ezra Meeker (Hops king of the Puyallup Valley and a founder of Puyallup) was tired of more primitive living, and after a trip to Europe decided to have this house built. It took 3 years to build and was finished in 1890.
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