Being flexible

All's well that ends well. We were scheduled to meet at the base of the South Park Bridge.  Unfortunately the construction was still present around the bridge.  I thought I had seen a sign indicating it would be done by now. Hopefully everyone who was looking for us found us as I left a sign at the food truck to indicate where to meet up with Urban Sketchers Seattle.

The other option for this outing was the Duwamish River People's Park and we exercised our flexibility to make this area the focus of today's outing. 

We moved away from the noise and confusion to the quiet of the park. It's a wetlands undergoing restoration.  Though I didn't think so at the time, when we met for throw down, one of the sketchers had seen an osprey in the nest.  

I did a montage sketch of three views along the park area.

 

 

Upper left is the South Park Bridge as seen from the new viewing platform at the far end of the park.  Lower left is an amusing sculpture on 14th Ave., near the bridge.  Is it a lantern fish?  At right are some flowers, a log and a view of the tails of aircraft across the river at the Boeing plant.  

 

 We'll go back another time, perhaps next spring, once the construction is done.  A few intrepid sketchers did sketch on the South Park Bridge. 

River in the rain

 We met this morning at the new Duwamish River People's Park. A small, but intrepid, group of sketchers braved the rain to sketch various locations in the park. We had brief respites in between bouts of sprinkles.  Fortunately, it never rained very hard.

I used the "Pete Scully" method:  I put the long handle of the umbrella down my jacket with the large canopy protecting my sketching. 

I had already sketched there a few weeks ago so I had picked the captain's log as my first subject.  A local told me the chair has been there for at least 3 years but the sign was added recently.

There was still some time and so I did a line drawing of the osprey nest with its one chick.

 Some sketchers left early and I didn't get a group photo. 

New Park

 

This morning I went to the South Park neighborhood to scout out a new park, The Duwamish River People's Park.  It's partially under construction but there was still a large area to explore.  Most interesting to me was the active Osprey nest.  

I always like a good juxtaposition.  My subject was thus the large nest and the aircraft in the Boeing lot across the river.