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| 1/31/15 St. James Cathedral |
Even though I was the one who had suggested the Frye Art Museum as the location for the 46th quarterly World Wide SketchCrawl, I have to admit I wasn’t very inspired. Not that the art wasn’t interesting – some of it was – but I found most of it to be unsketchable. In addition, some of us pen sketchers felt constrained by the museum’s media restrictions. I made a valiant attempt at capturing a cage-like structure made of bamboo, part of Jessica Kenney’s exhibit, “Anchor Zero,” with colored pencils.
After a couple more walks through all the exhibits trying to find something to sketch, I gave up and went out to my car across the street in Frye’s lot, where I had strategically parked facing St. James Cathedral’s twin towers. The first time I had sketched those towers from nearly the same position was almost exactly two years ago. (I’m not sure my architectural drawing skills have improved much, but maybe my color is a little better.)
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| 1/31/15 Part of Jessika Kenney's exhibit, "Anchor Zero" |
A small but enthusiastic group of Seattle Urban Sketchers gathered in the foyer to share sketches. We barely got a group photo taken before we were shushed – a tour had just begun! Welcome to new members Magdalena and Ryan!
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| Left to right: Magdalena, Darsie, Ryan, Michele, Frank and Tina |
Yes, I agree -- I would have joined you all today but I'd been to the Frye fairly recently (though before the new exhibit opened) and also found it hard to find anything to sketch there. I went on a warm sunny day, so like you, I went outside and sketched St. James instead. A much more satisfying subject, and you did a fine job on rendering it. Hope to see the group again in February!
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