Fall Color is Creeping into Town

Portland State Farmers Market

Portland Art Museum

One of my college era apartments.

In every season, I love this curved tree.

November Remnants

Here are some miscellaneous sketches from this month. These first two are sketches of clay sculptures by Glenn La'Fontaine. They are in the Native American wing of the Portland Art Museum.

Here are a couple from a sketchcrawl with the Urban Sketchers Portland group. The first was sketched from the window of Stumptown Coffee on Belmont and the next was sketched in an intersection nearby.

The following are from my figure drawing class at PNCA and from a drop-in session at Hipbone studio.

And that's the end of the sketches for November.

My Own Private NaNoDrawMo

A friend and I decided to try to do a drawing for each day in November, but we won't be posting them to the NaNoDrawMo site. Here's what I have so far (not counting the Japanese Gardens and Leaves that I already posted this month).

Young woman working in Caffe Destino

Ghost Ships at the Portland Art Museum

Museum guard, sketchers, visitors and ship parts

Warm up sketch on Ladd's Addition Sketch Crawl with the Portland Urban Sketchers

View of Ladd's Addition from window at Palio
(drawn one Saturday and watercolored the next)

Another view out the window of Palio

Miscellaneous sketches, Palio

Drawn in the dim light of Jimmy Mak's
 Mel Brown Septet playing

 I never quite know what these sketches look like until I look at them the next day in the light.

I've been practicing perspective. It's kind of like doing sit-ups.

When I see these larger, I can usually spot some of the flaws.

I tippy living room scene.

We put together some shelves. I decided to practice perspective before we put them both against the wall. We were better at  assembling them than it looks like in the sketch; the low one wasn't really that warped.

This isn't the first time I've drawn this wooden basket and it won't be the last. Maybe I'll get it right someday.

I drew these by freezing frames on t.v. It sure would be useful to freeze frame real life. I think it's time for a figure or face drawing class.

That's it for now. I think I'm going to make 30 sketches for November!

30th Worldwide Sketchcrawl

Saturday was the day of the 30th Worldwide Sketchcrawl and the Portland Urban Sketchers were out in the South Park blocks area. We gathered first at Boyd's Coffee, and did some warm-up sketches.

This was a good opportunity for me to go to the Art Museum to finish my pages in the group sketchbook. I did some sketching in the sculpture garden...

... and then headed into the Native American section inside.

I had to make a return trip the next day to get some of the colors right on the mask.

And then I sketched some pieces from my favorite exhibit of artifacts. (I'll have to look up the actual artist name and title.) I like the shadows that are cast on the wall, too. The colors are not accurate, since I added them later at home and just chose some colors for the ones I couldn't remember.

And now I'm caught up on blogging and won't be back until I've sketched some more!