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Monday, June 11, 2012
Sun!!!
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Scavenger Hunt: Item 28, "Hung Far Low" Sign
My first contribution - sat on the sidewalk just east of the 'Hung Far Low' sign with sporadic sun around 10 am on Rose Festival Saturday. Started with watercolor and then a bit of micron pen. I'm mostly a studio painter but I'm looking forward to doing more scavenger hunt pics and developing my plein-air sketching. Cheers, Don Welty
Friday, June 8, 2012
Scavenger Hunt: Item 28, "Hung Far Low" sign
Quick-ish watercolor squeezed into a gap in the day. Not quick enough to be loose and free, but not long enough to have all the detail that I was dreaming of putting into it...
The clouds were messing with the light, I think I would like the result better if I had been able to really count on some cast shadows to give things more form. But it was certainly fun looking at all the colors of the old buildings.
If I were to start this one again, I'd do a super-close-up of just the top blue & gold section of the sign against a background of stormy gray clouds. That's the part of the scene that appealed to me most, the vivid colors and interesting geometric shapes superimposed on gray washy chaos.
PS: In the spirit of egging everyone on, I just noticed that I've posted 14 of the 30 scavenger hunt items. Almost halfway there! How y'all doing on your lists?
If I were to start this one again, I'd do a super-close-up of just the top blue & gold section of the sign against a background of stormy gray clouds. That's the part of the scene that appealed to me most, the vivid colors and interesting geometric shapes superimposed on gray washy chaos.
PS: In the spirit of egging everyone on, I just noticed that I've posted 14 of the 30 scavenger hunt items. Almost halfway there! How y'all doing on your lists?
Scavenger Hunt: Item 9, Musician
So I was headed to meet a friend downtown last weekend, and the big city fair along the riverbank had very catchy rock music broadcasting off the stage. I knew the song, hummed along. I knew the next song, hummed along. I knew the third song, and started singing along, and started wondering whether it's common to have Tom Petty cover bands in this town?
And then I got up close enough to the stage, and realized that it was actually Tom Petty himself, singing away. So I drew him--tiny and from the back--while I caught the tail end of his performance (from the free side of the fence.) Been humming "Freefalling" all week.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Dodging May raindrops
Here in Portland, we're ready to be out there sketching in the sunshine but we're not getting much sunshine - it's still dumping rain on many precious weekend days. I haven't even started on the scavenger hunt, and am impressed at all the drawings pouring in here at the blog - great work, sketchers!
Much of my sketching is still happening during the daily commute or various other stolen moments.
Recently, Vicky and I both managed to drop by Sunnyside Piazza during the street repainting, though we missed each other. It was a challenging scene, with a lot of fast motion, standers-by blocking the view, complex shapes of vegetation and houses all around.
I attended Wonder Northwest, a "pop culture subculture" convention. Most of my sketching happened at the "Engineering Trek in the Park" panel discussion. The Trek in the Park folks enjoyed the live sketches I did at their awesome event last year, so I was particularly happy to sketch them again!
A few of us met up to visit Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home during their annual open house. We started off at Staccato Gelato in Sellwood, and I sketched the view down Bybee...
Alanna, Pascale, and I continued on to Wilhelm's. There was a sizable crowd already, mostly waiting to visit the Rae Room. The funeral home itself turned out to be a remarkable labyrinth of several buildings and outdoor areas all connected below with weaving, meandering corridors. There is a large fountain inside, alcoves with lovely stained glass, an outdoor pond with a stone bridge, the largest outdoor hand-painted mural in the nation, a great view of Oaks Bottom and Oaks Park, and corridor upon corridor of memorial boxes and urns.
It was a great place to visit and I'd love to go again! Next year, sketchers.
Much of my sketching is still happening during the daily commute or various other stolen moments.
Recently, Vicky and I both managed to drop by Sunnyside Piazza during the street repainting, though we missed each other. It was a challenging scene, with a lot of fast motion, standers-by blocking the view, complex shapes of vegetation and houses all around.
I attended Wonder Northwest, a "pop culture subculture" convention. Most of my sketching happened at the "Engineering Trek in the Park" panel discussion. The Trek in the Park folks enjoyed the live sketches I did at their awesome event last year, so I was particularly happy to sketch them again!
A few of us met up to visit Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home during their annual open house. We started off at Staccato Gelato in Sellwood, and I sketched the view down Bybee...
Alanna, Pascale, and I continued on to Wilhelm's. There was a sizable crowd already, mostly waiting to visit the Rae Room. The funeral home itself turned out to be a remarkable labyrinth of several buildings and outdoor areas all connected below with weaving, meandering corridors. There is a large fountain inside, alcoves with lovely stained glass, an outdoor pond with a stone bridge, the largest outdoor hand-painted mural in the nation, a great view of Oaks Bottom and Oaks Park, and corridor upon corridor of memorial boxes and urns.
It was a great place to visit and I'd love to go again! Next year, sketchers.
Monday, June 4, 2012
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