Summer in the City

A couple of weeks ago, on a beautiful day, I was at the south waterfront and sketched the Hawthorne Bridge.

Then I tried to draw three dragon boats (color added at home) but the composition got pretty busy.

This is my entry for 'unusual hair', although it's really more 'unusual hair ornamentation', since her multicolored hair was twined up with yarn creations.

Hunt Total: 17--I crossed the midpoint!

Scavenger Hunt Item 13: Watercraft

We had a lovely solar eclipse this past Sunday. I was lucky enough to be sitting along the riverbank with my eclipse-viewing glasses, alternating between watching the sun getting nibbled away to a tiny sliver; and watching a team of dragon boats racing down the Willamette! I was so completely enchanted by the whole scene that I almost didn't want to sketch it...but the way the diffuse, eclipsey light caught the wake of the boats finally did inspire me to break out my watercolors for a quick sketch.

(I just picked up a tube of Payne's Gray paint...and I love it so much.)