Next Sketch Outing
Saturday, Oct. 20: Evergreen Washelli Cemetery
Stimson-Green Mansion
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11/20/16 Ching sketching on the main floor |
Only a month or two before I joined Urban Sketchers in 2012,
the group had met at Stimson-Green Mansion, a beautifully restored and maintained building on the National
Register of Historic Places. Today I finally had an opportunity to sketch there
myself. Although the mansion is available to the public for special events and
tours, this morning it was generously opened just for Urban Sketchers Seattle, so we had the entire house to ourselves. (Thanks to David Chamness for arranging that!)
And what a house it is! Although dimly lit in some rooms, enough
natural light exposed the details in many areas. The architecture is “primarily
of Tudor and Gothic revival, but its eclectic styles also range through
Moorish, Romanesque, Neoclassical, and Renaissance influences.” I spent a while
simply wandering from room to room and floor to floor, taking photos and trying
to imagine what it must have been like for the Stimson family to live there in 1901, and later the Green family (who resided there for 60 years). Seattle doesn’t have many houses from the turn of
the previous century, so it was a treat to be able to walk through it, sit on
the furniture and sketch whatever we pleased.
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11/20/16 Window seat |
I was somewhat overwhelmed by the large interior views, so I
chose a few details that I thought would hint at some of the house’s grandeur.
Light coming in above a window seat, a wall lamp, and two beasts decorating one
of several fireplaces all caught my attention. My favorite sketch of the day
was of Ching when I captured her from above on the stairway landing.
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11/20/16 Fireplace details |
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11/20/16 Light fixture |
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Helen and Terrie in one of the bedrooms |
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Ching downstairs |
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Kate |
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Sketchers everywhere! |
I like the sketch of myself,too! Nice highlight on my hair :)
ReplyDeleteA pretty good likeness too, I'd say! :-)
Delete- Tina