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.

Reed College Sketchcrawl

The Urban Sketchers of Portland had a sketchcrawl at Reed this past weekend. The college ha a beautiful campus with gorgeous trees and interesting architecture. I think I could spend another day just sketching gargoyles

This time, I drew another sketcher, ...

the Anna Mann building through the trees, ...

and the doorway to one of the old residence halls...

And now for something completely different: 

From the opposite side of town, here's a view from the Fields, Portland's newest urban park.

It seems like the colors are getting better and better each fall, but maybe I just have time to appreciate them more now.