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| 7/10/15 Westlake Center |
What a treat the past three days have been (and I don’t mean
the return of our “normal” summer temperatures in the 60s and 70s, although
there’s also that)!
It started Friday with an ad hoc outing to Westlake Center,
where I sketched the cute miniature Ride the Ducks
boat/bus, which is actually the ticket booth for the land and water tour
vehicles. The round tree planters/benches made an interesting composition, but
it wasn’t until I started sketching that all those tricky ellipses snuck up on
me!
Saturday was the Pacific Northwest Regional Sketch Outing in
Tacoma, organized by Urban Sketchers Tacoma. During my drive down south, I was only half-listening to the NPR
radio program. The other half was mentally gearing up to do the sketch I knew I
had to do: Union
Station. Not because anyone was telling me I “should” sketch it or
expecting me to sketch it – after all, the beauty of urban sketching is never
having to sketch anything unless I want to – but because I knew I had avoided
it on previous Tacoma sketch outings. I am my own worst enemy that way: If I
perceive that I’m avoiding it, it means I need to do it.
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| 7/11/15 Tacoma Union Station |
Granted, there was a lot to avoid: The ornate
Beaux-Arts rotunda, all those elegant curves, figuring out perspective in
rounded objects. Ick. But I parked my sketch stool across the street from the
station and yelled, “Bring it!” (OK, I didn’t really yell that, but I wanted
to, since I face all architectural sketch challenges as personal battles.)
The three-day Urban Sketchers weekend culminated today with
the Georgetown Garden Walk. Although
I did pass through a couple of gardens quickly just so I could feel like I was officially
part of the walk, I actually wasn’t planning to sketch in any gardens. Instead,
I had my eye on one target: Hat ‘n’ Boots. A little more than a year ago, I had time to sketch only the boots half
of this legendary landmark at Oxbow Park,
and I’ve been wanting to go back to get the whole thing ever since. Cultural
organization Cross Pollinate had invited
artists and musicians to sketch, paint and perform throughout the day. It was so
much fun to look around Oxbow Park and see easels and sketchbooks everywhere!
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| 7/12/15 Hat 'n' Boots at Oxbow Park, Georgetown |
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