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

Worldwide Sketchcrawl- Portland Convention Center

Amid all of the super activity around the Chocolate Fest and the Comic Con at the Convention Center this Saturday I ignored it all (at least in my sketches) and as usual looked to the structures and sculptures.

Glass Flower sculpture - ink and watercolor pencils

Convention Center sculpture at escalator- ink and watercolor pencils

I was sitting in the long corridor for the above sketches while the long line of people for the Comic Con  was passing. There were several really inventive and creative costumes but they were moving a little too fast for me to attempt to sketch them. It may have been OK to attempt it if I had been a little more familiar with the characters they were representing .....as it was the only characters I related to were the obvious Star Trek and Star Wars types. Great fun to see all of the creativity though!

This first attempt at the Dragonboat was taken from the floor below but then I found the ideal place (thanks to Janene) to sketch this boat from the balcony above so I could really see all of the details.

Dragonboat- ink and watercolor pencils

Dragonboat- ink