Chilly morning sketching

 We met at Titlow Park today, exactly one year since our first outing there. The weather was chilly, breezy, cloudy. It didn't clear until after we left, of course.

Last year I'd sketched the view of the narrows bridge so this year I wanted to paint the lodge. I found a view with two large trees. The Titlow Lodge was built by Aaron Titlow started in 1911 as the Hotel Hesperides. The architect was Frederick Heath. When Titlow died in 1923 it was purchased by Metro Parks Tacoma.

I wandered some of the park and finally settled on a view of the foot bridge.

It was quite chilly on the edge of the bay with the view of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

The throw down at a picnic table near the lodge.

Mike came late so he took our group photo.

Titlow Park outing

We gathered at Tacoma's Titlow Park on a chilly, cloud covered morning. Most of us walked across the railroad tracks to the beach side of the park and sketched from a platform there.

The chill, damp, air was not conducive to watercolor drying so I had two sketches going at once. First is a view of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Next was one of a group of cormorants on the pier.

 

 

I wandered back to the park but first stopped to sketch the display of very large skeletons in a traffic circle.