Our history

Now that we are finally official, I thought it might be a good time to review our history.  USk Tacoma has been meeting for a year and a half.  Our first sketch outing was June 2013. 

It all began with Frances Buckmaster.  It was her idea.  She'd already gotten Rom involved when I met her.

I met Frances at the sketch outing in Seattle associated with the attendees of the Line to Color workshop led by Gail Wong and Frank Ching.  That was May 19th, 2013. She talked with me about her plan to form a Tacoma chapter of Urban Sketchers. Frances is in the tan jacket on the far left.
Link to all the photos.

On June 7th, 2013 Frances, Rom and I met in Tacoma to scout sketch locations and talk about the group. 

 

Then the three of us met at Frances' home on June 12th for further planning. 

The first Tacoma Urban Sketchers outing was June 27, 2013 at the Thursday Tacoma Farmers' Market on Broadway downtown.  This is Frances' photo of the group.  I wasn't there!

The second Tacoma Urban Sketchers outing was July 14th, 2013 around Union Station.

 

 More photos in this set.

First outing as an Official USK Group

Urban Sketchers Tacoma had our first outing as an officially recognized Urban Sketchers group on Saturday, 1 Nov 2014!  We still have a ways to go to be up and running on the USk website.  We've been meeting, though, since June 2013.

We met at the Hotel Murano The hotel is known for it's art collection and unique decor.
Details on the collection are here  It was a wonderful place to sketch!  Thank you to Keri Porritt, one of the Operations Managers,  for coordinating with us.  She also offered us a lunch reservation, which we accepted.  It was delightful!

The glass Viking Boats caught my eye immediately.


I was so amused by the lamp as life sized horse that I sketched it twice.

First sketch of the horse is a straight-on side view.

and then from the back end.

Sharing sketches


Here is our first group photo as an official Urban Sketchers group!


I made a lot of photo images around this beautiful hotel.  They are all here.