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.

Summer Sketches

 I'm trying to bring this blog up-to-date. These are miscellaneous sketches done last summer.

One day, sketching near PSU, we met a lot of people. One of them was a visiting professor from China who showed me how to draw shrimp.

This was sketched at a nursery in NE Portland.

These two sketches were made on 28th, on the edge of our neighborhood.

On the waterfront...

The top of the Congregational Church from the Portland Art Museum

A stein from the cabin mantle

Tilikum Crossing with the Urban Sketchers of Portland

Kennedy School Patio on a hot morning

Inside and Outside Urban Sketching

After days of rain, Monday in Portland was mostly sunny. My husband and I took advantage of the weather to walk over our newest bridge, Tilikum Crossing. (This is the one bridge that might escape destruction should the predicted huge earthquake occur.) As it was Martin Luther King day, many people were out enjoying their walks in the sunshine. After taking in the view from both sides, we finished up with a coffee and snacks from Elephants Cafe on the west side. There was just enough time to get in a sketch.

On Saturday, the Urban Sketchers of Portland met at Union Station for a sketch crawl. Again, with the holiday weekend, there were sudden arrivals and excited greetings of travelers.

This sketch was made at f & b cafe inside Rejuvenation Hardware, but if you know the barista, you won't recognize him here. I changed his mutton chop sideburns to a full beard (among other things) and the poor customer is made of parts of at least two different women.

On the Waterfront

A view from the South Waterfront

The new Tilikum Crossing from the Eastside Esplanade