Another assignment is to recall and sketch our first day of school. I can’t remember much of my first years of school, but I did recall this particular day. I was a first grader in 1946, just after WW2. and I lived on the Oregon coast. The Navy had a large fleet of dirigibles, or blimps, as we called them to do surveillance over the Pacific looking for Japanese submarines.
One day when we were at recess, one of these came right over our playground and it was awesome to see. They were huge.
This garden is the front yard of the Tru Value Hardware on Hawthorne. We sat out in the warm October sun and sketched amongst the tangle of tomato vines, sunflowers, and coneflowers. And we popped several of the cherry tomatoes into our mouths. Yum.
This was to complete an assignment for an online art course I’m taking.
Illustrate a recipe. I tried to do it without using words.
Last week I visited the Japanese Gardens with my sketcher friends. I sketched this little stone pagoda and then did the color work in gouache after I came home. We weren’t allowed to use any watercolor media in the Gardens. The day was perfect and everything was lush and green
A watercolor sketch of the old and derelict Centennial Mills on the Willamette River. So much construction is going on near this site. It was exciting to be at this location with all the activity around us.
In June we camped at Kah-nee-ta on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
It is a beautiful and well maintained campground with a huge swimming pool of lovely warm water. Some campers stay in the teepees in the teepee village but we prefer the comforts of our trailer.
In July we camped at Maryhill State Park which is on the Columbia River in Washington. On the way to Goldendale for supplies we came across this sign on Highway 97.
Saturday was the 2nd Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl. We met up across from the Portland Art Museum and then went our individual ways to sketch. I did a little Smart car and then went on to the Farmer’s Market and found a colorful lavender stand. We all met up again at noon to share sketchbook views and have a group picture. The event continued after lunch but it was way too hot for me to continue. I added watercolor to my sketches after I got home.
Last Friday the Compagnons sketched at Cornell Farms nursery on Barnes Road. It was hard for me to settle down to sketch because there were so many gorgeous plant displays. It was wet outside so we had to find cover and I ended up with the vegetables and the fertilizer and worm castings!
This sketch was done at a large antique store. After wandering around trying to decide what to sketch, these watering cans caught my eye because of the simplicity of their lines and color.
Lessons four and five in culinary herbs.
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