Hawthorne and Beyond

I found a few more things on the Urban Sketchers Portland Scavenger Hunt list.

Coffee is always easy to find. This came from The Hazel Room on Hawthorne.

(I should have anchored that enormous cup of coffee with a shadow.)

Sitting on the porch there, I sketched the bikes and roses.

(Until drawing this, I hadn't realized that the bicylist logo is wearing a helmet.)

Here's another one done on Hawthorne: The Backstage Bar behind the Bagdad Theater.

(Here's a problem with adding paint at home: I painted sky over part of what should have been building.)

 Dads with babies aren't on the list, but they're easy to find. These two were at Jamison Square.

Lampposts are on the list, so here a a couple seen from between

The Schnitz and the The Winningstad theaters.

 One of these days, I need to tackle the harder items on the list: the bike pile, the elk, and a Benson Bubbler.

Portland's Festival of Flowers

Every year for the Portland Rose Festival, there's a display of flowers in Pioneer Courthouse Square. This year, Bill Will designed 'You Are Here', a map of the world using 20,000 plants.  This sketch shows South America, looking northward. The plants that were used included marigolds, impatients,  tomatoes, mint, camomile, salvia, begonias, and more. Later this week, the plants will be on sale, so I'll be back again for some good bargains.

The next sketches were made at Jamison Square. Sometime I'll post a drawing of the fountain where people watch the toddlers play, but it's a perspective challenge that is really difficult for me.

There are always lots of boats and ships around for Rose Festival. Recently, the Portland Urban Sketchers spent a lovely sunny Saturday sketching at Riverplace. The boat in the foreground looks like it would be really fun to zip around in, but it wasn't really that short.

This last sketch was done at Kennedy School in the Courtyard Restaurant. The McMenamin's restaurants and inns are filled with art in every nook and cranny. I especially like the lamps in this room.

We're hoping for less rain and more sun in Portland. My sketching friends and I are all eager to be outside drawing.

Some New and Old Sketches

Here are two recent sketches from Director's Square in downtown Portland.

This is a year-old sketch of the Hollywood Theater, done Sempe style, with Sumi ink.

Two days of sketches at McMenamins Edgefield:

With a group of sketching friends, we drew in the bar while waiting for the sun to appear.

The lanterns in the Black Rabbit Courtyard. All the time we were sketching, a financial planner droned on to a group of captive conference participants. Too bad they were missing the delightful time outside in the sun.

A quick sketch of the Black Rabbit Courtyard at McMemamins Edgefield.

The Portland Urban Sketch group sketched at the King Farmer's Market on a rainy day.

SketchCrawl: Florist Shop

This wedding dress (with butterflies) was inside the florist shop.

This is the Ecotrust Building. Sketched on the February SketchCrawl and color (including leaves) added much, much later. That's cheating, but it really needed color.

Sketching at Edgefield

I've been sketching with some friends in order to prepare for a big Sketching Symposium in a couple of weeks.

Here's a sketch from McMenamins

Edgefield.