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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Green Lake Through Fresh Eyes

10/23/16 Green Lake Park

I’ve lived near Green Lake for almost 30 years, walked around it at least weekly year-round, and sketched there more often than at any other park (164 results came up in my Flickr photostream search of “Green Lake”). When I see the same things day after day, they sometimes become invisible. That’s what made this morning’s Urban Sketchers outing in the Green Lake neighborhood especially rich for me: I had the opportunity to see very familiar places and things through other sketchers’ eyes, and they became fresh for me again.

10/23/16 Woodlawn Ave. NE
For my own sketches, I seemed to have been in a tree mood. Suzanne and I both set our stools down near Starbucks facing the two rows of magnificent old trees leading from the street to the community center. I’ve sketched those trees many times, but I never tire of them. This time I chose an angle with the playfield behind them.

After that I walked to the street next to the La Escuelita Bilingual School, where the cherry trees had lost most of their leaves. I was tempted to give them more color, but I am ever “truthful to the scenes I witness” (maybe to a fault).

I forgot to take a photo of our sketchbook throwdown, but at least a couple dozen sketchers must have made it today. We lucked out with mild weather and even sunshine by noon!

3 comments:

  1. I love those yellow trees of yours, Tina!

    Sorry to miss today, I was teaching a little mini-workshop this morning back at King Street Station...this looks like it was fun, and what luck the weather cleared!

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    1. Thank you, Stephanie! We did, indeed, luck out on beautiful weather!

      - Tina

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  2. I love those yellow trees of yours, Tina!

    Sorry to miss today, I was teaching a little mini-workshop this morning back at King Street Station...this looks like it was fun, and what luck the weather cleared!

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