Upcoming Sketch Outings

Welcome to Urban Sketchers Seattle! The current month's sketch outings are listed below. This page is updated monthly. To receive emails of our events, please make a request to: usk.seattle[at]gmail.com. You can also learn about events by joining our Facebook group. You may share your sketches there and in our Flickr group. On Instagram, follow @uskseattle.

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September’s scheduled outings are lighter than most months because three of your four admins will be out of town at various times. Although these won’t be USk outings, two more fun drawing opportunities are available this month: the Edmonds Car Show on Sept. 6 and Gage Academy’s Drawing Jam on Sept. 12. Feel like sketching but no outing is planned? Lead an outing yourself! Post the location, date and time to this mailing list or in the Facebook group, and invite others to join you.

 

Friday, Sept. 4, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Soos Creek Botanical Garden (Auburn)

29308 132nd Ave SE, Auburn

It’s sunflower season, and Soos Creek Botanical Garden has plenty! Meet in the parking lot. After the outing, those who want to can meet for lunch at nearby Turkish Coffee House around 1:15 p.m.

 

Friday, Sept. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.: Drink & draw at Phinney Station 

7418 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle

Not formal sketch outings, USk Seattle’s drink & draws are a casual social opportunity to sketch with friends. Before summer runs out, let’s go back to Phinney Station in the Greenwood neighborhood that we enjoyed so much a few weeks ago. The large, street-level patio has plenty of tables with umbrellas. Two food trucks are available; bringing your own food is also OK. Please patronize the venue by purchasing a beverage (full bar and non-alcoholic beverages available).

 

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Discovery Park Radome and Historic District 

South parking lot (closest to W. Emerson St.)

Seattle’s largest park is a rare forest in the middle of an urban neighborhood. There are plenty of trees to sketch if that’s your jam, or sketch the historic golf ball-like radar tower (Radome) and turn-of-the-20^th-century buildings. If you are not familiar with Discovery Park, the sketch location may be difficult to find. We recommend parking at the SOUTH parking lot and meeting at the information kiosk near the lot entrance. Arrive on time to walk with the group to the location. If you arrive late, follow directions below.

1.     Park at SOUTH parking lot.

2.     Meet at information kiosk near the lot entrance. Facing the kiosk, turn left up the gravel trail. Walk uphill on the trail. Follow signs for “South Meadow.”

3.     When the trail forms a T with a paved road (a sign indicates marker #7), take a right on the paved road.

4.     Walk downslope toward the left for a lower view of the Radome.

5.     Or walk upslope toward the right for historic houses with Radome in background.

 

Sunday  Sept. 13, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Light Rail 2 Line 

Initial meetup: 11 a.m. Judkins Park Station
First throwdown: 1 p.m. Jimi Hendrix Park
Second throwdown: 3 p.m. Bellevue Downtown Station

Butterfly Canopy at Jimi Hendrix Park

Sound Transit’s 2 Line across Lake Washington opened to much fanfare last spring, and it’s time to sketch it! This outing will have two throwdowns! Meet outside Judkins Park Station (23^rd Ave. entrance), which is across the street from Jimi Hendrix Park and the Northwest African American Museum. The first throwdown will be near the red “Butterfly Canopy” sculpture at Jimi Hendrix Park. Those who want to continue to the second half of the outing will ride eastward and sketch at stations along the way. The final throwdown will be at Bellevue Downtown Station.

 

Friday, Sept. 18, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Olympic Sculpture Park 

2901 Western Ave, Seattle

If you missed our previous outing, here’s another opportunity to sketch the newest temporary installation at Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads. These monumental cast bronze animal heads “reconceive the 12 zodiac heads that decorated an 18th-century Qing imperial fountain before they were looted during the Second Opium War (1856–60).” Meet outside the front entrance of Paccar Pavilion.

 

Friday, Sept. 25, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Seattle Art Museum with WSU students 

1300 First Ave., Seattle (meet near the Hammering Man)

Bob Krikac and Michael Sanchez of the Washington State University landscape architecture and interior design programs have a long-standing tradition of bringing their students to Seattle every fall to encourage them to draw on location. Please welcome and join them in sketching inside or outside the Seattle Art Museum. (SAM’s lobby is free and open to the public; other areas require admission. Only pencil is allowed in exhibit areas.)

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PLEASE NOTE: At most USk outings, at least one admin is present to act as “leader” for that event. Very occasionally, no admins are available to attend. If you have attended previously and know the drill, and you notice that no admins have stepped up to start the outing at the appointed start time, please welcome any first-timers, decide on a throwdown location, and announce the throwdown time. If you can, please also take a group photo after the throwdown and share on social media with the hashtag #uskseattle . Thank you!

-        Your USk admin team:

Tina (tinakoyama1 [at] gmail)
Kate (mkbuike [at] comcast.net)
Jane (janewingfield [at] gmail.com)
Kim (jkplus2 [at] gmail.com) 

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