Tabor Bread

After Portland's icy freeze, it felt good to get out of the house to join Deb at the warm, cozy  and yeasty scented Tabor Bread on upper Hawthorne. Our primary intention was to see Rita's watercolors of Portland Landmarks that are on showing there until mid-January. I knew I wanted some of Rita's art to display at home and I'm pleased with what I bought. Now, I hope it will work its inspirational magic on me, too.

I was on a tight schedule, so I got in a couple of quick sketches and added the color at home. The baker was constantly on the move, making loaf after loaf in the back of the shop. He was too quick for me to try to measure, so he came out differently proportioned than in reality.

Next, I tried to get a little group at the children' table. A woman was reading to two little girls, one in fur vest, boots, and gathered skirt and the other in a ballet tutu. I love how they dressed with such pizazz, even in the cold, wet weather.

Ordinarily, I probably wouldn't post rough, crookedy sketches like these, but Deb and were talking about how we'd like it if people posted here more often, so here's my contribution. I hope to sketch with lots of you in 2016 and I hope lots of you will post your creations here, too.

Oh, and try to get to Tabor Bread while Rita's show is up to see her work and to have some delicious treats, and maybe make a sketch. You won't regret it!

First sketch

Finally made it to Tabor Bread to see Rita's Portland Sketches. It was hard to decide on which one to purchase, The Envoy with the lovely autumn trees was my favorite to start but then I saw the full scene of the Port of Portland  taken from the Bluffs and it was decided. That was the one!
After we made our Rita sketch selection Vicky and I enjoyed a beverage and sat down to do our own sketch.
This is my first sketch of 2016...hoping this will be a very good sketching year for me and for all of my usk sketching friends!!

watercolor pencils and Noodlers Kiowa Pecan Brown ink