Icons and secret pockets

So many times when I get to our monthly sketch outing I feel the pressure to find something quickly to focus on and start! I hear the voice of those monkeys that follow me around, "You only have 2 and a half hours and you've got to produce something." 

So last Sunday I decided to take an easier pace, walk around, scope out the place.  So I started drawing a walking map, something I've never done. I got half way down the path when I noticed a little path I'd never seen before. And there sat hi-tech chrome plated frames tipped at different angles, Perre's Ventaglio III by Beverly Pepper. The frames sit in the middle of a walking path surrounded by plants and trees. I just liked the contrasts -- natural greenery/chrome; organic shapes/geometric rectangles; light/shadow. 

Then, with another hour to go, the map idea forgotten, I decided to sketch an icon--the Typewriter Eraser, Scale X by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.  The shadows were really strong that morning making the eraser all the more dramatic. 



 It was a beautiful day - a tribute to a beautiful summer. 

Sketching with the Next Generation Interior Designers

Beautiful day. Lovely location. Interesting new acquaintances. Fun day.

Not quite all of us, but most of us.

Olympic Sculpture Park

Here's one of my drawings from last Saturday's adhoc sketching session with the WSU students. I edited the background quite a bit so that I wouldn't lose the focus on the PACCAR Pavilion, framed by the trees on the left and the Wave by Richard Serra on the right.

Olympic Sculpture Park

My daughter Sophie's sketch on the Top and mine on the bottom.

Beautiful Day at Sculpture Garden

The sun, the wind, the clouds, the mountains and the absolute vivid light of our glorious September. We had a lovely morning of sketching, watercoloring and sharing with the students and instructors from WSU.

motion, attitude and force

powerful sculptural artists at the Park, this morning; Calder and Serra charcoal work, like figure drawing.