Sketches from Apple Fest

I had never been to the big apple tasting festival at Portland Nursery before. What a great community party! Steady flow of families pouring in for apples, pears, pumpkins, cider, streudel, music, all of the fun.

Giant apple balloon over the festival tent

Once the baby finally tuckered herself out (thumping on hay bales, chasing puppies, and trying to climb onto all the garden carts), I joined the little trio of urban sketching friends and whipped out a few small sketches during her nap.

It was the actual crates of apples, the large wooden boxes that are moved in by nimble forklifts, full of sweet colorful crunchy goodness, that most caught my eye.

The grain of the wood, the cracks from long use, the tough metal hardware that reinforces each corner. How many years apple festivals have each of these crates seen? Such unique character in each individual box.

Impromptu Sketching: Saturday, 10/11/2014

Hello, Sketchy Friends! There's a notion afoot to get some sketching in this Saturday, Oct 11.

Sketch by Alanna!

Plan A: Sketch the Apple Festival! Meet at Portland Nursery at 10:00 am. The Apple Festival is at 5050 SE Stark, near 50th. It runs from 10 am to 5 pm. More info on what is planned is at http://portlandnursery.com/events/appletasting.shtml

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Plan B: If the weather report looks bad, the backup plan will be to sketch indoors at Hipbone Studios, located at 1847 E. BURNSIDE, #104. They have a drop-in session from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday.

Sketch from Saturday

Here's my sketch from last Saturday, looking out at SW 10th from the Case Study Cafe.
Had enough time to add some color to this one.

Wonderful Very Old Sketchbook

Certainly not urban sketching, but check out this wonderful 16th Century sketchbook by Adriaen Coenen, in the collection of the National Library of the Netherlands:

http://www.flandrica.be/items/show/658/

Follow the link: Dit werk online raadplegen to see all the pages at a time. You can scroll the thumbnails by placing your mouse over the column. The displayed images are not large, but if you click on them you then have two levels of zoom available. They are a treat!

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I agree with Deb about the good sharing and conversation with our little group of intrepid sketchers.

Here's my first sketch from Case Study...

My sketch at Director's Square was very experimental and not post-worthy, so here are a couple of sketches from earlier this week. They were done pretty quickly because I've been resisting the idea that summer is really over, and  haven't been dressing for the chilly weather.

Before long, I'll be searching in the back of the closet for my fingerless gloves!

sketching on Saturday

The day wasn't as nice as those weather people predicted....the predicted sun did not come out until the afternoon.  So the morning was grey and cool...cool enough to feel it after being out for a while.
But the sketching turned out to be good and three other sketchers joined me. So good conversation and good sharing.

I didn't make it to sketch the Multnomah Library's 150th Birthday celebrations as I stayed near the Guild Theatre for these two sketches.

watercolor and ink

non waterproof ink (Noodlers Kiowa Pecan) and a little watercolor

Fall color, cont: FUNGI!

A wee sketch of fall fungi near Hoyt Arboretum that I did last year. It's a beautiful time of year for using watercolor--if I can only keep the kiddo from eating the brush!

Watercolor: a tree in autumn

I have not been sketching much lately, but I thought this older watercolor from 2010 set the tone nicely! Happy fall to all.

Autumn has arrived!

I am not sure this qualifies as 'Urban sketching' but I did pick them up from the city streets.

I seem to draw/paint these chestnuts every year. I just find them so appealing and a sign that the seasons are changing. Another reason could be the fact I grew up in the Buckeye state!

A couple of weekends ago I took the Line to Color: Tacoma workshop with Frank Ching and Gail Wong.  It was a great workshop and I was impressed with Tacoma as a sketching venue and as a city.  The workshop reconfirmed wwhat I already knew, perspective is hard!