December 2018

One of my resolutions is to not ignore this blog this year. I've now caught up my archive of the last 15 months, just in time for the 2019 year to begin!

Sketching out the window at a new tea shop...

Get cozy!

Merry Christmas!

Happy 2019, Everyone!

October//November 2018

September 2018: Portland

Back in Portland, a jet-lagged sketch in Montavilla with the Urban Sketchers of Portland.

A beautiful day sketching in a garden at Edgefield in Troutdale.

A view from the window of World Cup in NW Portland.

September 2018: Dublin

The first (jet-lagged) sketch in Dublin: St. Patrick's Cathedral. I think it helps to sketch something complicated while jet-lagged. It seems to realign the braincells more quickly.:)

Same park...

Still wobbly at dinner at the Fish Shack...

Sketching outside the Chester Beatty Library where Michael Martin, a passer-by told me I could get a few quid for this drawing and "someone could enjoy it on their wall." We had a nice chat and he gave me a pencil. 

Another view from our local park...

I sketched the very modern Bird Gais Energy Theater with the Dublin sketchers. It was sunny, but I was freezing, with my scarf wrapped around my head, shivering in the wind.  I heard someone say, "It's a perfect day for sketching in Dublin." They were a charming group and we gathered to share sketchbooks and chat in a nearby pub.

Again, outside of the Chester Beatty Library...

I love the ever-changing cloud shows in Dublin's skies...

            A beautiful stained glass window, 'The Mother of Sorrows', by Harry Clarke, 1926.
                                                      National Gallery of Ireland.

August 2018

July 2018

In the maze and shade of Ladd's Addition, where we tried to help lost the drivers, walkers and bikers figure out where they were. Eventually, a homeowner brought us a stack of maps to pass out to the lost folks. We figured this is a regular occurrence in this neighborhood. 

The Chinese Garden is always a pleasure.

A quick sketch to remember a momentous weekend in Hood River.

Shade in Jamison Square.

The umbrellas on the terrace of the Oregon Historical Society.

A local food cart before the noon rush.

June 2018: Rose Festival Season

Coffee and sketching on the waterfront...

Fierce dragon boats...

Reed College

A stunningly beautiful day in the Portland Rose Test Gardens of Washington Park. Everybody seems happy and the flowers are exquisite. Even the bees are happy.

Sketching the Japanese Garden in Lithia Park, Ashland. Unfortunately, this is the scene of where K lost her art supplies.

May 2018

Kearney Plaza Apartments...

Laurelhurst Park

On a sketchcrawl with the Portland Urban Sketchers

A succulent garden...

                                                       cleaning at the Portland Art Museum...

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden where the flowers were lovely, but one of the visitors was not.

William Temple House is being sold.