February 2018

Goodnight moon.

Here and There in Portland

 Waiting for the Climate March...

After the Climate March....

Jamison Square

Drinking coffee and sketching...

Listening to music and sketching audiences...

and always, flowers...

Playing around with Perspective

Recent Sketches and Drawings

These don't have much in common except for the fact that they were done in the last couple of weeks.

Details from Architectural Heritage Center with Urban Sketchers

Orchids

New Coffee Shop

View from Laughing Planet SW

Winter Birch, Jamison Square

Hoffman Hall, Womens' Stage, PSU

Figure Drawing

Behind the Museum Cafe

Tulips (Winter Therapy)

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!