Looking Back on June 2019

A Paris show came to the Portland Art Museum!

Several jazz musicians gave a benefit for Sisters of the Road at Augusta Church. It was wonderful!

This might look like a stature, but it was a very still man. the other man, accidentally (I think!) squirted us with his water hose as he cleaned the fountain. 

People at Tabor Space. The women are not actually having a seance.

Wildflowers at PSU, Walk of Heroines

                         One of our roses, from a housewarming gift from my parents 32 years ago.

Rainier Cherries: good to paint, good to eat!

Looking Back on May

Iris bed at PSU, Walk of Heroines

Ladd's Addition with a messy sky.

I think most of the above sketches are self-explanatory. This next one, the grid, is my attempt at sketching a very large and extremely colorful set of paintings by David Hockney on display at the Portland Art Museum. Matching up the lines from rectangle to rectangle was something like doing a jigsaw puzzle. My brain got a workout.

February/March 2019

February was a good month for drawing flowers indoors...

...and visiting the art museum.

Calder Mobile

March arrived and more flowers started blooming.

It was still pretty chilly for sketching outside. I sketched a church from the Historical Society lobby...

and NW Portland houses from a coffee shop window....

A truck pulled up and hid my view, so I sketched the signage on the truck (with some editorializing).

Once, I sketched some NW Victorian rooftops from a car with friends....

 

When the weather warmed up, the Urban Sketchers went looking for cherry blossoms. We were early (or they were late) so I sketched some of my fellow sketchers.

The next week, the trees were turning pink....

                                     and the following week, they were in FULL BLOOM!

August 2018

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.