Pumpkin Patch

Last day of the pumpkin patch!

Schilter Family Farm near Olympia

 

Every year I just want to drink in the colors of this season.

A Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam

In Hue, Vietnam

Oddfellows Cafe_10.10.10

This is a place I use a an urban refuge. Good ambience and it's a great place to watch people. This is the first sketch in which multiple people are included.

Yesterday morning before going to the Imperial Citadel and Forbidden Purple City in Hue, Vietnam, I walked to the Perfume River and sketched this typical tour boat out in the river.

After visiting the tombs yesterday in Hue (pronounced h-way), and the pagoda where Thich Nhat Hahn became a monk, I walked back to the neighborhood and did a sketch of this building. I believe it is a restaurant, but I love the lines of the architectural design. So heavy yet elegant and uplifting.

Experience Music Project_first watercolor of the spring

It was a beautiful spring day and I just rolled around Seattle. Ended up at the Seattle Center and decided to take a chance on sketching this undulating form. It was a good challenge.

Chinatown Gate

Love Don's sketches of Saigon. Late as usual posting this sketch from our last outing on the 29th Worldwide Sketchcrawl in Chinatown/ID district. This gateway is simple in structure but there's a lot going on within it. The broad view is to take in the Smith tower to the right and the clock tower of King St. Station peeking in on the left.

This is a real working class community in west Saigon. There are no tourists, so people were curious about this white guy wandering around. I was often asked to have tea or coffee with people, and I would show them my sketches of the places I'd been drawing. They usually recognized the places I drew, and always paid for my coffee. Genuinely friendly people.

more Saigon buildings near the orphanage

I just spent a week teaching art to 165 kids in grades 1 through 5 at an orphanage on the outskirts of Saigon. There were no tourists, no restaurants other than street food, no taxis, no English speaking people, even at the guest house where I stayed ($7.50 a night). The orphanage was great though, with free lunches and dinners, fast wifi and an air conditioned office. On my long lunch breaks I walked around the neighborhood (full of people preparing food and fixing motorcycles) doing a few sketches.

More from the ID District

There are a lot of interesting historic buildings in the ID district.  The other day I discovered Canton Alley which is located adjacent to the Wing Luke Museum.  It looks as if part of the Wing Luke Museum fronts the Alley.  My guess is that this is part of the Historic Tour that you can take walking through the ID District.
Here are a couple of sketches I did recently of the Alley.

Sketching in Buenos Aires - no dim sum.

Hi! I've been trying to post for days but google has been letting me down. It looks like you had a wonderful Sketchcrawl day and I love seeing the results. I spent the day at a market also and am posting one from there and another view near Plaza de Mayo of Evita fame. My best to all, Peggy

International District Sketchcrawl

October 16 - Hing Hay Park

Sorry I couldn't stay to enjoy dim sum with everyone. This was quite a contrast to our last ID sketchcrawl weather in February! There were two elderly men here practicing qi gong with taped music. That and a bench to put the watercolors on = heaven!!

House on stilts in the Cambodian countryside