7/29

Went up to our rooftop yesterday for a sketch of the new Bullitt Building. It's suppose to be completed this fall and is being touted as the greenest building in the world.

A six-story, 50,000 sq. ft. building that will function completely off the grid with solar panels for energy, geothermal wells for heat, a giant cistern for water and composting toilets. It's a really pretty building and it's so cool that it's in our neighborhood!

7/25

Tacos at Rancho Bravo, sunny evening last week so I sat outside to eat. I sat at a table with a man I had not met before, he was a fellow southerner, told me he lives here in Seattle now and misses talkin to strangers. We chatted for a bit while I drew my last yummy taco.

 

7/21

On Saturday I went to Tacoma to participate in a sketchcrawl with the Pacific Northwest Urban Sketchers. It was my first time meeting with these talented folks and I am excited at the prospect of drawing with them more. We met near the Tacoma Glass Museum and stayed in that area throughout the day.

The Swiss Pub at the top of the hill is one of my favorite watering holes. We met here for lunch, the one waitress and one bartender kicked into high gear when 30 sketchbook toting people walked in. My drawings are pretty static compared to what I saw others doing....learning, learning, learning

7/16

We went to Mt. Rainier for a 3 day weekday camping trip, I am not fond of hiking on snow fields so I left that for Gina and stayed near our lovely campsite and enjoyed some sketching. A little creek half encircled our campsite and the water was cold! Gina submersed some of my Inversions in the creek for low energy cooling. The next day we were up at the Visitor Center @ Sunrise and I discovered that The National Park System offers a little passport book that you can have stamped at parks that you visit, I stamped my own page and was a little sad that I didn't know about this when we visited all the parks last summer.... 

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Gina hiked all day on Monday and almost fell asleep in her chair, I took the oppurtunity to sketch her....I'll have to work on her likeness .....

7/10

Snoopy hard at work at his day job, we bought a cat bed for him, but he chooses instead to curl up in the folds of the futon

7/9

I have discovered that Mondays are the best day to draw at my neighborhood pub, a man from Australia asked to see my sketch and declared it "brilliant" when he asked me how long it took to make, I answered "two beers", later when he saw me making notes on the side he told me not to touch it...drawing in public can be very entertaining